The Atlas aligned Taxpayer’s Union has released its latest Curia poll results.
I always have a certain sense of incredulity when reading Curia’s poll results. Like the last one which suggested that Act’s racist anti Treaty campaign had resulted in a surge of support. I really worried about this. I thought the good people of Aotearoa were better than this and I was heartened because Curia’s result was contradicted by Talbot Mills and 1News Verian poll results which suggested that Act’s support declined.
And so the latest Curia Poll result has dropped and it makes you wonder if Judith Collins had a finger on the scale. Because the results show that Christopher Luxon’s support has tanked, with voters having a positive view of him dropping by 5% points, voters having a negative view of him increasing by 11% points, and National’s support dropping by 2.2% points.
Newshub tried to present this as bad news for Labour. But Labour and the Greens swapping support while National sheds 2.2% points and Act sheds a whopping 3.7% points is not bad news for the left. A modest increase for NZ First does not compensate.
The Taxpayers Union release about the poll tends to downplay Act’s support, I wonder why, but as a proportion its support tanked way worse than any other party.
Of course it could be that the drop was a correction of a previous rogue poll result which was against the results in the other two more reputable polls.
Or this could be more evidence that Act’s racist treaty dog whistling is going down badly.
The poll clearly shows that National has not had a honeymoon. I can recall vividly in 2009 when John Key’s support surged and National appeared to be unbeatable.
Things are way different now. And Christopher Luxon’s refusing to live in Government House so that he could pocked $52,000 a year so that he could stay in an apartment that he already owned will make Kiwis think that despite the best propaganda that money can buy, National is completely indifferent to our collective interests.
Updated: lprent – fixed the link to Newshub. It wasn’t to Stuff.
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