Voters and parties are more tolerant of prime ministers' poor polling. Recent prime ministers have been in worse positions and emerged victorious at the next election.
But as each week passes and the Opposition Leader continues to score against the government over the carbon tax, as the asylum-seeker issues remain unresolved and as decisions such as the live-cattle trade ban are bungled, the Prime Minister starts to move into the realms of previous PMs who went down in the polls, didn't recover and lost the leadership, or the election.
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