It’s interesting to see blog responses to polls. With some it depends very much on the results.
Last night a Colmar Brunton poll showed a significant swing for National and against Labour.
Whale Oil tends to be slow reacting to news, especially news they don’t like. So far they have only one post on the poll, and it’s bizarre – Face of the Day:
Meet Gary Morgan. The Man At The Top at Roy Morgan Research. He may be, in the end, the most powerful influencer of how this election turned out.
That on it’s own is an odd claim.
Well, I think he should hide in his office for the day. Even though I have no doubt there has not been anything shady going on, the end result is that the widely swinging poll, and specifically its timing, is hugely damaging to the Labour party.

That has to be the shoddiest bit of polling yet. It wouldn’t surprise me if the left will accuse Roy Morgan of deliberately screwing with the election in favour of National.
The shoddiness is in the post.
That’s last night’s Colmar Brunton poll. Roy Morgan has nothing to do with it.
And it is dirty and devious to use ‘the left’ to imply a deliberately screwed poll.
Has ‘Whaleoil Staff’ really got confused between Roy Morgan and Colmar Brunton? Or is it deliberate confusion to attack the pollsters and the poll result?
Meanwhile The Standard is usually very quick to have posts on Labour friendly polls, but as is common last night’s poll has not appeared anywhere apart from in last night’s Daily Review 20/09/2017.
Instead Anthony Robins continues his posts attacking National:
Bill English and the Nats are now running firmly on a platform of lies – Gower calls them on this for a second time this week. Should the political left get down in the gutter too? Is NZ doomed to lying politics now?
Sounds defeatist.
Ardern’s jab that English “discovered poverty last week” was the line of the debate. After the election National will forget it again just as quickly, if the record of the last nine years is anything to go by. Do you want to vote for that?
Why do Labour supporters put so much effort into attacking National at The Standard when they have a largely left wing audience.
The Standard (resident trolls and moderators) actively try to drive away anyone judged to be a National supporter. Even those in the centre, or non-aligned, or deemed to be not left enough get attacked and banned.
So they are hardly going to swing many votes away from National by attacking them.
And there is a stark contrast between Jacinda Ardern’s ‘relentlessly positive’ and The Standard’s ‘relentlessly negative’.
Note that there are some positive Green posts at The Standard these days but Green supporters are prominent in their negative attacks.