Written By:
Eddie - Date published:
10:04 am, June 9th, 2009 - 2 comments
Categories: Media, polls -
Tags: nzpa, roy morgan
Saw this strange article from NZPA last night.
National may be behind in the polls for the upcoming Mt Albert by-election, but nationwide it still maintaining high levels of popularity.
The latest nationwide Roy Morgan poll recorded unchanged support for National with 52 per cent and Labour down half a percentage point to 31 per cent.
Strange, because I couldn’t recall there being a recent Roy Morgan poll. Turns out the one they’re referring to is more than a week old. It was released on June 3, and was taken over the period May 18-31.
That’s pre-Budget and before the Richard Worth fiasco blew up. Why they thought it was newsworthy to bring up now is beyond me.
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Politics – Bring up the old poll showing that NACT still have support after all the fiasco’s that would have lost them support to try and prove that they still have a mandate.
On the face of this — I agree.
Ego-centric support.