Federal election 2013 is just four weeks shy of its official date, but Kevin Rudd news continued to reveal unfavourable details for PM Rudd. The recent Newspoll from The Australian said dissatisfaction rating for Mr Rudd was in its highest at present.

Mr Rudd remains Australia's preferred leader over his rival Tony Abbott; however, dissatisfaction rating for Mr Rudd is in the highest scale at present. The result in ratings was compared in the entire six weeks that Mr Rudd had reclaimed the seat of power as the prime minister from Julia Gillard.

His dissatisfaction rating was up one notch at 49 per cent as compared to 47 per cent last week, though, his satisfaction rate was also one notch up at 39 per cent as compared to 38 per cent last week. The net satisfaction rating or the difference between satisfaction and dissatisfaction for Mr Rudd was gaining a momentum on minus 9. However, the momentum proved futile as Newspoll reveald that Mr Abbott's net satisfaction rating improved from minus 20 to minus 14.

Voters' appreciation for rival Mr Abbott had remarkably increased at 4 per cent to 39 per cent. This was his highest satisfaction rating in 2013 since Ms Gillard had originally called for the Sept 14 election date.

Mr Abbott was gradually catching up in the game. As for the question of who would make the better prime minister, Mr Rudd was still leading the game over Mr Abbott. Mr Rudd's support was at 46 per cent, down from 47 per cent last week, while Mr Abbott's 37 per cent was up four points since last week's poll.

Obviously, Mr Abbott had narrowed the gap as the preferred prime minister if support for him will continue to increase in the coming weeks before the election.

Meanwhile, the Australian Labor Party had been suffering blow-per-blow account with the recent polls, revealing that the party's primary vote is at its lowest.

The Coalition's primary vote support of 46 per cent was up two percentages high in the past week - this had been consistent in the past three months.

While Labor's 35 per cent was down two percentages lower since the beginning of the parties' official campaign last week. If records on the 2010 preference flows will be taken into consideration, the two-party-preferred vote is steady showing Coalition winning the lead at 52 per cent to Labor's 48 per cent.

What was really threatening for the Labor party was that 54 per cent of the voters expect the Coalition to win the election, while only 26 per cent think that Labor will win. Also, there were 72 per cent of voters committed to their votes for the Coalition while there was only 26 per cent of the Labor voters show commitment for their votes in favour of the Labor party.