Jones 35% behind Sharples
At Curiablog I have full results from the Te Karere Digipoll of Tamaki Makaurau.
Sharples is 35% ahead of Shane Jones. That will be a landslide, if an actual result. This was a seat Labour boasted of winning.
Four times as many voters cite Key over Goff as their Preferred PM. And this is amongst mainly poor urban Maori in South Auckland. The areas in the electorate which have more than 1,000 voters are:
- Clendon Park
- Mangerefour time
- Mangere East
- Manurewa
- Otahuhu
- Otara
- Papatoetoe
- Weymouth
So even in Mangere, Manurewa and Otara, four times as many Maori roll voters are saying they prefer the National Party leader to the Labour Party leader.
This is somewhat akin to a Republican candidate being four times more popular in Detroit as a Democrat. National only got 7% of the vote here in 2008, yet Key is four times the support of Goff to be PM.