poll Archive

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  Greens, like most, are optimists - by frog

  
  
  
  Some people like to paint the Greens as gloom merchants. I have found that Greens are, at their worst; realists, and at their best; optimists. There is a universal undercurrent of optimism and enthusiasm for life at every Green function I attend. No doubt I’ll see the optimism overflowing this weekend at our annual AGM, [...] read more
  May 25, 2009 9:42 am - 11 Comments
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  Government seriously out of step on climate change - by frog

  
  
  
  The poll released today by the New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development shows that our National-led government is seriously out of step with ordinary kiwis. Yuck. That sounded like a press release. Too bad it’s true. Let’s start with the message for the deniers: “There’s a group of about 10% who think climate change [...] read more
  March 23, 2009 12:39 pm - 37 Comments
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  Herald declares National to be the party of CEOs - by frog

  
  
  
  I was going to comment on the Herald’s latest foray into unusually invalid polls (this time polling ‘the mood of the boardroom’) but it seems that 08wire has beaten me to it much more succinctly: What a tremendously unbiased sample the Herald has chosen for their survey about our political leaders. I’ll look forward to [...] read more
  October 30, 2008 10:45 am - 4 Comments
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  An agreeable question with a disagreeable result - by frog

  
  
  
  It’s unsurprising that ONE News Colmar Brunton poll should find that, when asked ‘should the party with the most votes should get to lead the government’, nearly 80 percent of people agree.  It seems a reasonable sort of thing to suggest. I imagine you would get the same sort of support for the proposition that [...] read more
  October 28, 2008 4:13 pm - 17 Comments
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  Double digit seduction - by frog

  
  
  
  It´s hard to resist a poll that puts the Greens into double digits. That would mean double digit MPs. Idiot/Savant kindly linked to a Roy Morgan poll just out, which puts the Greens at 11.5%. That´s heady stuff. Fifteen MPs says Idiot/Savant. But he is right of course, Roy Morgan is often kinder to the [...] read more
  October 24, 2008 2:46 pm - 32 Comments
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  Fairfax shows Greens up 2 points - by frog

  
  
  
  Fairfax has the Greens on 7 percent today – as usual we are one of only 3 parties to cross the 5 percent threshold.  That is now the fourth of the five public polls to show the Greens’ support growing in the last 8 days.  I assume the fifth poll – the Herald’s Digipoll must [...] read more
  October 18, 2008 9:00 am - 17 Comments
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  TVNZ gives Greens 8 percent - by frog

  
  
  
  If Roy Morgan’s poll tends to flatter the smaller parties some times, TVNZ can’t be caused of the same love of diversity. So in many ways it’s One News Colmar Brunton poll showing 8 percent for the Greens last night (up from 3.5% in the middle of August) is more exciting than Roy Morgan’s 9 [...] read more
  October 13, 2008 7:16 am - 2 Comments
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  Trustworthiness; it’s like truthiness - by frog

  
  
  
  Nice work by McTap, a bunch of Young Greens and some Frogblog readers, has in two days seen Winston Peters go from zero percent in TVNZ’s online poll on the most trustworthy MP in Parliament, to 36 percent, neck and neck for the lead with John Key.  Turia and Sharples have now been belatedly added [...] read more
  September 27, 2008 9:57 am - 11 Comments
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  Excluded cos we’d win? - by frog

  
  
  
  I’ve just been pointed to this TVNZ webpoll on who is the trustworthiest politician.  Out of over 120 MPs your only choices to vote for are Clark, Key, Peters, Anderton, Hide and Dunne.  Neither the Greens nor the Maori Party are listed. Maybe this poll is like one of the the preliminary knockout rounds before [...] read more
  September 25, 2008 3:15 pm - 20 Comments
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  Roy Morgan poll - by frog

  
  
  
  I’ve always been a bit wary of the Roy Morgan poll since the 2005 election where it proved itself to be a bit of an outlier, especially in relation to the Greens.  Nevertheless its consistency of support for ‘third’ parties seems easier to believe than the up again, down again fluctuation that other polls often [...] read more
  September 5, 2008 7:45 am - 19 Comments
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  Rogues and vanguards - by frog

  
  
  
  So I guess the question everybody will now be asking is was that Fairfax poll also a rogue? (P.S. It’s a lowish result for the Greens – 5% – but not outside the general trend for the last few months. Even the Greens’ high results still need to come up but at least the low [...] read more
  July 20, 2008 7:45 am - 65 Comments
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  Roy Morgan poll - by frog

  
  
  
  I feel like I have been saying this for while now, but there are no discernible trends in the latest Roy Morgan poll. There’s a spike that will make New Zealand First happy as it heads towards its conference, and there are some small waves in the shallow end of the pool. But on the [...] read more
  July 18, 2008 7:18 pm - 7 Comments
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  Herald Digipoll - by frog

  
  
  
  Three quick things worth mentioning about the Herald Digipoll this morning: One – there’s a large 13.8 per cent of voters who aren’t committing to any party yet. That suggests to me that the messages from the two largest parties who dominate the media discourse in note resonating yet with many voters. It also implies [...] read more
  May 30, 2008 1:37 pm - 75 Comments
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  20 days to have your say on preferential trade with China - by frog

  
  
  
  You would probably expect me to be jumping up and down about these poll figures: Asked if they supported New Zealand signing a free trade agreement with China, 44.7 per cent of those questioned in the DigiPoll survey said they did. Just about a third – 32.4 per cent – said no, while 22.9 per [...] read more
  March 31, 2008 9:54 am - 32 Comments
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  TNVZ poll also shows Greens up - by frog

  
  
  
  Over the weekend TVNZ’s Colmar Brunton poll continued to show an upward trend for the Greens, moving from 4.6 to 6%. The TVNZ poll often seems to be one that the Greens fare poorly in. And it’s a frustrating one because it is often hard to tell from the coverage when the poll was conducted [...] read more
  February 18, 2008 1:36 pm - 14 Comments
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  Morgan poll has Greens at 9% - by frog

  
  
  
  A second poll within the month has put the Greens at 9%.  The Greens have now had significant upward swings in the Roy Morgan, TV3 and Herald polls in the last month. It will take a few months to see if this is a significant trend but hopefully it shows that the Greens are shaping [...] read more
  February 11, 2008 11:07 pm - 34 Comments