Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is ahead of the game in the political arena against its rival Tony Abbott according to a Fairfax-Nielsen poll.

Mr Rudd got 55 per cent approval ratings as the most preferred prime minister while Mr Abbott dwindles at 41 per cent.

With this result, Mr Rudd has become the only party leader, both from Australian Labor Party and the Opposition, within two-and-half years to gain a large percentage of performance approval than disapproval of voters says The Age.

At an 8 per cent increase Mr Rudd is definitely on the top of the game with Mr Abbott decreased net rate of 15 per cent.

It looked like Mr Rudd had snatched back all favorable feedback reaped by Mr Abbott when the latter was just fighting bottleneck with then Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Fairfax-Nielsen also found that Mr Rudd had dramatically improved the Australian Labor Party's edge for the coming election as he brings the party to a 50-50 dead-level lead as preferred party. The recent poll revealed a dramatic shift of support from voters to Labor as its two-party-preferred vote moved up a 7-percentage notch up as Coalition's likeability plummeted interestingly by 7 per cent too.

According to reports, Labor plans to throw carbon taxing away from its agenda through deciding on a floating price a year early had indulge the party to the voters' approval. This only goes to show that ex-prime minister Julia Gillard had it all wrong during her term.

Meanwhile, it looked like the spotlight had already dimmed for Mr Abbott as Malcolm Turnbull claimed that more people play favourite toward his advantage over Mr Abbott.

In a report from Brisbane Time, Mr Turnbull said that people had been telling him that they prefer he lead the Liberal Party over Tony Abott. However, even with this favouritsm over Liberal leadership, Mr Turnbull said that these people will still be voting for the party no matter who will lead it.

In an interview with Network's Financial Review Sunday, Mr Turnbull said, "There are a lot of people out there who would rather I was leading the Liberal Party; it is ridiculous to deny that's not happening."

"If they think I am a person of capability and quality and so forth, they should be comforted by the fact that I am part of that team in a senior leadership position. So if you are a Malcolm Turnbull fan rather than a Tony Abbott: I will be up the top table."

However, Mr Turnbull denied that there will be a changed in the party leadership before the federal election. He explained that if Mr Abbott is to be elected, there will be partial process under a traditional conventional cabinet government.

It was to be recalled that Mr Turnbull led the Liberals and was the Opposition Leader for over 14 months before he lost his leadership ballot to Mr Abbott by a single vote in December 2009.