Jeanette is the nation’s most trusted leader.
Oops. Last night that ‘this election is about trust’ statement from the Prime Minister kind of backfired on her and her Minister without portfolio. The TVNZ poll about which political leader we trust the most shows Jeanette has the trust of 64 percent of New Zealanders, probably due to consistently saying what she means and then working to make that happen. Meanwhile Winston peters scraped together 19 percent of people who trust him. I can’t speculate as to why this figure should be so low.
The TV1 News coverage of its own poll is hilarious. Watch for the Green Party billboard that randomly wanders past in the background of Jeanette’s interview. Trust me, I hear it was entirely unplanned.
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October 8th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Well I suppose it kinda-sorta worked for Clark - she was 2 points ahead of Key, after all.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Hey BluePeter - I’m waiting with keen anticipation to hear your comments on why Jeanette is seen by so many New Zealanders as most worthy of trust. What is wrong with the New Zealand public??? Can’t they see through her honest, trustworthy, straight talking, well informed, balanced, humanitarian, decent, intelligent facade? Sheesh!
October 8th, 2008 at 10:00 am
She seems to me to quite trustworthy. I disagree with almost everything she says, but she does appear to be a trustworthy, sincere person.
Full marks for fronting up to the EFA march, too. Respect.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Wierd - this is very inconsistent with their online poll - that had Winstone at 65%, and there wasn’t even an option of voting for Jeanette - I guess they saw the error of their ways and did a phone poll to report on instead.
October 8th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Interesting to see who Moari voters will vote for
* National 15.0%
* Labour 52.0%
* Green 5.0%
* NZ First 5.0%
* Maori 20.0%
* United Future <1%
* ACT <1%
* Progressive
[Note equally Green and NZ First]
http://curiablog.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/maori-voters-poll/
October 8th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
jh - that’s very strong support for the left (taha maui)
October 9th, 2008 at 5:10 am
It may be support for the left but not the radical Green type as just as many support NZ First (subdivisions left, right and center) as support the Greens (radical social change- tino rangitiratanga etc).