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Opinion of Tony Abbott

9 Aug 2010

Q. Since the election was called has your opinion of Tony Abbott and the Liberal Party gone up or down?

  Total Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens
Total gone up 27% 9% 55% 9%
Total gone down 27% 50% 4% 42%
Gone up a lot 8% 2% 18%
Gone up a little 19% 7% 37% 9%
Stayed the same 38% 36% 39% 45%
Gone down a little 11% 15% 3% 27%
Gone down a lot 16% 35% 1% 15%
Don’t know 8% 5% 2% 3%

 27% say their opinion of Tony Abbott and the Liberal Party has gone up during the election campaign and 27% say it has gone down.

 Among Liberal/National voters 55% say their opinion has gone up and 4% say it has gone down.

 By gender – men 28% up/26% down and women 25% up/28% down.

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