You and I we know each other
Nothing hides from us
You don't have to say it brother
It's all so obvious
Lyrics: Jon Toogood
Maiki's ado about nothing
Last night’s poll result on TVNZ looked oddly familiar. Not only was it generally inline with other recent polls but the numbers looked awfully like the ones on election night.
This wasn’t an aspect mentioned in the news report, although it’s probably quite handy to note, so let’s compare the two so you can see what I mean…
As you can see National, the Greens, and NZ First are all very close to, within 1% of, their election night result. Te Pāti Māori are up a little more, Act are down by 2% and Labour are up by 3%.
Or to put it another way, on election night the gap between the right bloc of Act/Nat/NZF, and the left one of Lab/Greens/TPM, was 53% to 42%, an 11 point gap. Last night’s result was 51% to 45%. So that 11 point gap on election night is now down to just a 6 point difference.
However if you watched 1 News last night that was definitely not the impression you would’ve gotten.
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