the Coalition has an all-time high two-party-preferred vote of 59 per cent compared with Labor's 41 per cent.
For Julia Gillard personally, it is even worse:
Voter satisfaction with Ms Gillard ... fell six points to a record low of 23 per cent as dissatisfaction jumped seven points to 68 per cent. The only modern prime minister with worse personal support was Paul Keating, who had a satisfaction level of 17 per cent and dissatisfaction of 74 per cent in August 1993.
And we all know what happened to Keating when voters finally could get their hands on him, three years later.
Head to head with Abbott, it's never been worse for Gillard:
Mr Abbott jumped clear to a nine-point lead over her as the preferred prime minister, with a rise in support from 39 per cent to 43 per cent. Ms Gillard's support fell four points to a new low of 34 per cent.
This is Mr Abbott?s biggest lead over Ms Gillard ...
With Simon Crean and Bill Shorten unwilling to move openly against Gillard, the public sentiment is left to firm behind the man who actually helped to create this disaster in the first place:
Asked who out of Ms Gillard and Mr Rudd was the best candidate to lead the Labor Party, voters chose Mr Rudd 57 per cent to Ms Gillard's 24 per cent.
And the Greens should feel humiliated, too. Labor has lost 10 points of its support, but not a scrap of its has gone to the Greens. Rather, these extremists have gone backwards, too:
...a two-point fall in Greens support from 14 to 12 per cent
UPDATE
Labor was doing much better than this when it decided its polling was so bad that Kevin Rudd had to go:
In the latest Newspoll survey, taken exclusively for The Australian last weekend, Labor?s primary vote was stuck at 27 per cent, eight percentage points below Labor's primary vote on the weekend before Mr Rudd was removed. In June last year, Mr Rudd was nine points ahead of Mr Abbott, 46 per cent to 39 per cent, but last weekend Mr Abbott was nine points in front of Ms Gillard 43 per cent to 34 per cent.
UPDATE
Niki Savva has a sobering analogy as she writes off Gillard:
As gut-wrenching as it will be for Labor MPs to dispatch their second prime minister in a row, and to suffer all the bad jokes and gibes - including mine of Australia becoming the Italy of the Pacific, with four prime ministers in four years (Howard, Rudd, Gillard and Rudd?) - they have little choice. Gillard has shown she is not up to the job. Wayne Swan, who will also have to go when Gillard does, has described her as tough as nails. He's right. One problem. Tough does not equal smart. She has made too many mistakes and shown a worrying inability to learn from any of them. Under her, Labor has fallen to its lowest levels ever.
No matter how much she wants to stay as prime minister, and her determination is formidable, it is now out of her hands. She has failed on policy, on administration, on credibility, on judgment and on presentation.
