National’s Support Continues To Crumble
The latest Roy Morgan poll shows support for National continues to erode, in line with other recent polls. The poll, conducted between 24th March – 6th April, shows support for National dropped by 4-percent, to 47-percent. While National’s drop was quite large, the increase in support for Labour was relatively marginal at only 0.5-percent, to 34.5-percent.
The Greens picked up 2.5-percent in the latest poll, taking them to 9-percent. Of the other small parties, both NZ First and the Maori Party picked up 1-percent, taking them to 4-percent and 3-percent respectively. Act remained unchanged on 1.5-percent, while United Future and the Progressives barely registered, with only 0.5-percent support each.
The poll clearly indicates that National has failed to regain the momentum it lost during March after the numerous gaffs and cock-ups by John Key, and now that it has lost the political agenda altogether they will have to fight to win the public back. It is surprising that Labour didn’t pick up more than 0.5-percent, however the poll doesn’t take into account the FTA with China or the government’s veto of the sale of Auckland Airport to the Canadian Pension Plan. One expects that both of these issues have gone down well with the general public, and this will likely be seen in future polls.
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National Pays For Key’s Blunders
The latest TVNZ/Colamr Brunton poll has National taking somewhat of a hit following the rather bad fortnight the party has had. National is down 3 points to 50-percent, while Labour is up one to 35-percent. Both the Greens and NZ First have also picked up a point, taking them to 7 and 2.5-percent each. The Maori Party is sitting on a reasonable 2.5-percent, with all other parties failing to register over 1-percent. The latest poll follows the recent Roy Morgan poll, which also showed growing support for Labour.
In the past fortnight John Key has demonstrated that, without close management, he is a liability for National. This has certainly been picked up in the polls. Helen Clark and Labour now need to keep the pressure on Key to force more of these errors, and to show the public what the real John Key is actually like.
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