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Like I said, nearly every single one for 3 years. And after a couple of negative ones, they all headed back up again before the coup and pointed to a clear election victory for Kev prior to JG.

All 3 major polls. For 3 years, every fortnight/month. When Kev was ousted by Paul Howes, the ALP were ahead 2PP 53/47 and he was ahead of Abbott as preferred PM 46/37. Maybe the ALP had special foresight not bestowed on all the polling houses and the bookies, or maybe the AWU just wanted...

Kind of goes without saying in my book.

This notion seems to be creeping in as accepted wisdom when in fact the opposite was true. Polls were in favor of the ALP in 2010. They won nearly every single opinion poll for first preference and 2PP and preferred PM for the entire 3 year period post 2007 election. Things narrowed closer...