{"id":11499,"date":"2013-07-08T21:08:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T11:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=11499"},"modified":"2013-07-08T21:09:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T11:09:45","slug":"australia-decides-2013-the-polls-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=11499","title":{"rendered":"Australia Decides 2013:  The polls are in&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?attachment_id=11501\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11501\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11501\" alt=\"ausdecides2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ausdecides2013.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ausdecides2013.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ausdecides2013-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A week ago, Labor was staring down the barrel of electoral annihilation in September.\u00a0 Julia Gillard was somehow losing a popularity contest against conservative leader Tony Abbott who typically ranked at about a 35% approval rating.\u00a0 Labor were looking at losing by ten points in two party preferred polls and that had been consistent for about six months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So last week, Labor finally swallowed their pride, got rid of Gillard and brought back former prime minister Kevin Rudd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How has that worked out?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?attachment_id=11500\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11500\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11500\" alt=\"morganpoll\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/morganpoll.jpg\" width=\"349\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/morganpoll.jpg 349w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/morganpoll-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This week&#8217;s Morgan Poll has a <em>twenty one<\/em> point bounce for Labor and has them sitting at an election winning margin.\u00a0 They are leading by 10 points in two party preferred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Its the world biggest &#8216;honeymoon&#8217; approval bounce I&#8217;ve seen since George Bush pre to post 9\/11.\u00a0 Somehow this election has gone from a guaranteed Labor massacre to a victory within their grasp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Can they keep their shit together for two months?\u00a0 Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago, Labor was staring down the barrel of electoral annihilation in September.\u00a0 Julia Gillard was somehow losing a popularity contest against conservative leader Tony Abbott who typically ranked at about a 35% approval rating.\u00a0 Labor were looking at losing by ten points in two party preferred polls and that had been consistent for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1506,276,578],"class_list":["post-11499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-australia-decides-2013","tag-kevin-rudd","tag-tony-abbott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11503,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499\/revisions\/11503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}