SA poll showed Rudd was rebounding before 2010 coup A Labor poll showed Kevin Rudd was rebounding before the 2010 leadership coup. TELL US: Should Labor change leaders before the election? CRITICAL internal Labor polling in South Australia, taken on the eve of Kevin Rudd's political assassination, revealed a rebound for the PM and suggested Labor could still have won an election in 2010 under his leadership. But the polling was kept a secret from Mr Rudd, most senior ministers and the majority of the Labor caucus for fear it could have unravelled plans for the coup that was already well under way. The revelations came as it emerged last night that the Rudd camp may have brokered a deal to bring across key supporters of Julia Gillard. Canberra is on a knife-edge today as it begins a tense final sitting with the crucial issues of Labor's leadership and media reforms still unresolved. Chief government whip Joel Fitzgibbon said it would be "silly" to pretend nothing was happening and admitted caucus members were "expressing concern about the future of the government and indeed the party." Mr Rudd's numbers men claim the former PM has 47 solid votes, Ms Gillard 42 with the rest of the 102 member caucus undecided. In 2010, Labor Party officials had cancelled a round of scheduled polling the week before the June 24 coup, but one poll had already been commissioned and was already "in the field." The survey was conducted by UMR research on June 22-23, 2010, in the marginal SA seat of Kingston. The results showed Mr Rudd was well in front of Tony Abbott as the preferred prime minister, leading 50 to 39 per cent. The numbers also showed that the swing against Labor was nowhere near as dire as being suggested to MPs, with only a 0.5 per cent swing against the Government in that marginal seat.