https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...aland-politics
Rogue poll or not, all the signs point to a tectonic shift in New Zealand politics.
For a start, the political centre appears to be shifting to the left. Across the past four polls, support for Labour and the Greens sits around 62 per cent. When nearly two out of three voters in a naturally conservative nation support the centre-left, something is going on.
Correspondingly, as the notional median voter shifts left, parties on the right are being left high and dry. The Reid Research poll put the combined support for National, ACT and New Zealand First at 30.4 per cent, a touch under half the level of support for the centre-left.
The polling suggests that Collins’s penchant for attack politics is not resonating with voters. She has not been helped by the recent antics of (now departed or demoted) caucus colleagues Hamish Walker, Michael Woodhouse and Andrew Falloon, but the buck stops with her.
National’s default claim of being the better economic manager also took a blow in the most recent poll. Asked who they trusted most with the post-Covid economy, 62.3 per cent of respondents preferred a Labour-led government and only 26.5 per cent a National-led one.