The latest One News / Colmar Brunton poll was published by TVNZ on Sunday night. The results are as follows, with the brackets showing the results from the October, September and August:
Lab - 35% (37, 39, 36)
Nat - 54% (49, 49, 53)
Grn - 4.6% (6, 5, 5)
NZF - 2.2% (1.9, 3, 2.6)
MP - 1.7% (2.8, 3, 1)
UF - 0.5% (0.4, 1, 0.5)
ACT - 0.8% (0.6, 1, 1.2)
The Preferred Prime Minister numbers are as follows:
Helen Clark - 30% (33, 33, 29)
John Key - 35% (33, 31, 35)
Winston Peters - 2% (3, 4, 4)
The story for this poll is largely the same as for TV3. Not huge shifts in the numbers but adding up to a very large gap for Labour to overcome next year. The point of frustration for me is how much of the current situation is self inflicted damage on Labour's part, compared with actual genuine progress on National's part.
It will require a very clean start to 2008 and tight disciplined competence to pull this back. The good thing is there are a lot of people in Labour ready to do just that.
Having people "ready to do just that" is one thing, having people with the ability to do just that is another.
Posted by: dave crampton | Wednesday, 19 December 2007 at 12:13 AM
Having people "ready to do just that" is one thing, having people with the ability to do just that is another.
Posted by: dave crampton | Wednesday, 19 December 2007 at 12:13 AM