In the equivalent elections in 2007, the Liberal Democrats polled 26% of the vote, about twice its current poll level.
However on the straw poll level, Dodd was able to gain a victory during an event in South Carolina on March 5, 2007.
Dickson observes: It's worth noting that only Hague and Pickles have been active since polling day; and judging by one recent tweet, Pickles seems intent on maintaining pre-poll levels of activity.
After Labor Day, as each party's post-convention bounce in the polls levels off, voter surveys will give the first good indication of how close the 2000 election is likely to be.
"At the May 2014 European elections we saw three Green MEPs elected to the Lib Dems' one, we are polling level or above them with several pollsters, and now we have more members than them.
The Five Star leader has since jubilantly drawn connections between American "Trumpismo" and the grassroots populism of his own movement, which stands at 30% in the polls, level pegging with Renzi's party.
Political insiders talked of red meat being thrown to the right wing to bolster the chancellor's support, others that soaring home energy bills were reaching "poll tax levels" of concern for the PM.
Polls show levels of concern higher than in the 1970s.
Indeed, for almost all of Gillard's tenure as prime minister, Labor polled at levels below the lowest level of support for Rudd in the 2007-2010 period.
Tony Abbott won the leadership of the Liberal party in December 2009, at which point Labor was still polling at levels indistinguishable from its 2007 election result.
Only about one thing is unambiguous in the data: Labor got a six- to seven-point boost in TPP from switching back to Rudd, to be polling at levels indistinguishable from its 2010 election result.
