Rees prefered premier and approval rating still beating fatcats but voting intentions have the coalition winning by 12 points. Either Fatcat has a super duper frontbench or the some if not all of these figures are bull butter. Actually there is a bit of a figure fiddling in that they've divided "other" votes straight down the middle, even preferences. In reality Labor will harvest far more with the Greens dominated the "other vote".
Interestingly QLD labor is the second oldest government in Australia after her big brother south of the border and yet is still slightly more popular than her LNP rivals. In fact Anna Bligh is the third most popular head of government in Australia after Kevin Rudd and Colin Barnett. It could just be because Queensland is a weird state, probably the only populace who seem to think they are Queenslanders first and Australians second, It's the only state where more people live outside the greater capital than within and it's got no upper house. Maybe they contribute to why Queensland bucks the trend of the other states. It was pretty much all LNP from 2001-2007 whereas the other longserving labor state governments tended to be federal labor's key states. But the crucial point methinks is that after WA it recieves more Commonwealth funding per capita than any other state, and that there is a Queenslander in Canberra also leaves the electorate a bit gruntled.
What that all comes back to is that NSW labor are not the bumbling oafs we all accuse them of being, they are the governors of an underfunded state whom have been in far too long to have any political capital left in the tank.
On a little aside Beaudesert will be a hoot to watch. A marginal seat with a retiring MP, two high profile independants running, It'll be a free for all. Could well see a democrat or something shoot through with a skilled preferance harvest.
