I would certainly agree with your view that "people detest Gillard" and it seems to be a quite well justified position based on Gillard's lies, deception and stonewalling coupled with her proven absolute incompetence, cringeworthly and embarassing unstuitability for the PM slot and her apparent distain for the Australian people...
However Tony Abbott is and has been the victim of a sustained and disgraceful campaign of personal destruction orchestrated and conducted by Gillard's massive army of socialist propagandists...
We saw one of the many examples of this ongoing campaign of lies used to smear Tony Abbott with Gillard's insane, unhinged, spit-hurling, screeching rant attemtping to label loving family man and father of three daughters as a mysoginist or woman-hater for daring to criticize and point out the shorcomings and failings of Gillard's failed union-boss controlled government...
Gillard's rant was so obviously insane and off the mark that she even had her handlers desperately struggling to redefine the english language the next day to attempt to cover the complete and incredible insanity of Gillard's claim...
Any apparent poll-derived "unpopularity" of Tony Abbott is primarily a media construct and part of Gillard's disgraceful campaign of personal destruction of Tony Abbott from a corrupt, leftists infiltrated media to deny the Australian people an effective and workable government under the highly qualified and effective Tony Abbott led liberal government...
