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Poor polls continue for both federal and Victorian Labor

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There have been three recent federal polls. The combined vote for One Nation and the Coalition was down one point to 47% in Resolve, up three points to 53% in Redbridge and steady at 50% in YouGov. Anthony Albanese’s ratings are very poor in all three polls. Economic perceptions appear to be hurting Labor.

It’s less than three weeks until the November 28 Victorian election. Recent polls all have the Coalition gaining to open a large lead over Labor.

In preliminary results for Saturday’s New Zealand election, right-wing parties have a combined 67 of the 131 seats, a majority. Parliament has been expanded from its nominal 120 seats to 131 due to “overhangs”.

Democrats are likely to win the US Senate by 56–44 over Republicans in last Tuesday’s midterm elections. They lead in the national House popular vote by nearly 13 points.

A national Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted November 2–7 from a sample of 2,250, gave Labor 28% of the primary vote (down one since the early October Resolve poll), One Nation 25% (steady), the Coalition 22% (down one), the Greens 13% (up one), independents 6% (steady) and others 5% (steady).

Albanese’s net approval was down four points to -22 (56% poor, 34% good). Angus Taylor’s was up two points to 9 (42% good, 33% poor). Pauline Hanson’s was down one point to 3 (45% good, 42% poor).

In a three-way preferred PM question, Albanese had 29% (down three), Taylor 25% (up three) and Hanson 24% (down two).

For Labor politicians, Mark Butler was at 1 net likeability, Richard Marles at -3, Penny Wong at -4, Tony Burke at -5, Chris Bowen at -9 and Jim Chalmers at -11. Nationals leader Matt Canavan was at 6, One........

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