PM gains, but Rudd leads - National - theage.com.au
The Age reports:
People were asked to imagine Peter Costello was PM and then quizzed a second time on how they would vote. Labor's two-party lead rose to 61 to 39 per cent. Asked whether they would prefer Mr Rudd or Mr Costello as PM, an overwhelming 60 per cent preferred Mr Rudd, to 32 per cent for Mr Costello.
I have never really understood Costello's unpopularlity. He doesn't seem to me any more insincere than your average politician, and the media who spend time around him seem to think well enough of him. It's hard to criticise his job as treasurer. He's nowhere near as demeaning to others in his parliamentary performance as Keating was; in any event, Keating showed that nasty headkicking can have an appreciative audience.
So why is he still unpopular?
Just because he is Treasurer. Keating was similarly unpopular until he went to the backbench and changed his tune. I agree that Costello seems like a decent bloke and heaps better than that weasel Rudd.
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