Who would you rather have a beer with, Malcolm Turnbull or Bill Shorten?
Would you trust either man to look after your pet?
These are the sort of questions Essential Media asked people in their most recent survey.
On money matters, Turnbull was ahead consistently while Shorten won what could be loosely classified as the “good bloke” tests.
Possibly the most striking results were that often more than half of those polled did not want to nominate either man – to have beer with, to go to the footy with, to ask advice or to look after the children.
The poll showed more people would like to have a beer with Shorten (30% compared with 25% to Turnbull) and trusted him to look after Fluffy (23% to 20%).
On the other hand, more people would prefer to have dinner with Turnbull (38% to 22%) and take financial advice from the prime minister (53% to 13%).
Shorten also won on the question of who would most likely lend you $100. (Shorten polled 31% to 26% for Turnbull.) Those polled would be more likely to ask Shorten for help in home renovations (24% to 17%) and would expect him to stop to help if their car had broken down (37% to 21%).
Both leaders polled pretty closely when it came to looking after the respondents’ children (Turnbull’s 22% to Shorten’s 21%) but when it came to giving their children advice about the future, the prime minister was well in front (34% to 17%).
By the way, on voting intention, the Coalition was ahead of Labor on a two-party-preferred basis 51% to 49%.
A total of 40% respondents think Malcolm Turnbull would make the better prime minister – a drop of 3% – while 27% think Bill Shorten would make the better prime minister – a drop of 1%.
