Polls. "solid increase in the Coalition’s standing", page-19

All politicians are smeared to a certain extent by the stinky sewage of union-bosses toxic corruption an control of the labor party and by their unstable greenie partners...

Naturally what you have a constant union-bosses directed 24 hour a day full spectrum media campaign to vilify, denigrate and personally destroy Tony Abbott, his wife, daughters and even aged mother, some of that stinky sewage that the lefties are flinging will tend to stick...