Anyone who watched Malcolm Turnbull’s interview on the 7:30 Report last night knows that our new leader is positively dripping with charm, causing even tough-as-shit reporter Leigh Sales to blush.
That charm appears to be (unsurprisingly) working in his favour, which the news that, as of this morning, Malcolm Turnbull is our most popular prime minister in five years.
In the first Newspoll since he became PM, published in The Australian, old Malcs scored a 34-point lead over Bill Shorten, trumping him with 55% of the vote as preferred PM to Yawn-ton’s 21%. (I mean, did you SEE Q&A last night? Snooze-fucking-city.)
Malcolm Turnbull soars as better PM. http://t.co/Ykhn5AWcct #Newspoll pic.twitter.com/OGF1MgU7v8
— The Australian (@australian) September 21, 2015
The last time a prime minister was this popular, it was Julia Gillard in July 2010 – a full three PMs ago.
Moving swiftly along from the fact that we could pretty much replace the Gregorian calendar with prime ministerships at this point, Malcolm also one-upped Tony Abbott‘s performance rating by managing to score one in the positive integers.
This is the first time in 31 Newspolls that the Coalition has led Labor in the two-party-preferred poll, edging out at 51% to Labor‘s 49%. (The Greens have dropped one point in the primary vote to 11%.)
Now, it the obvious reason for these dramatic swings are the ousting of the astoundingly unpopular Tony Abbott, but that would be completely overlooking Malcolm’s ~ winning smile ~ and ability to sympathise with hardship because “when I was partner at Goldman Sachs in New York some people worked harder than me but earned less.”
Images: Stefan Postles via Getty Images / The Australian.
