3 News poll shows National likely to win election

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:00a.m.

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The National Party could govern with unbridled power on the evidence of tonight's 3 News political poll. However the gap has closed slightly between Labour and National.

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23 Jul 2008 04:56p.m.

alan wrote:

If there is one thing that convinces me that the average voter shouldn't be trusted with democracy and actually being allowed to vote, as Winston Churchill famously remarked, it is 'results' such as these polls. Yawn. National is amazing in that it has no policy, has a leader who is pretty naive, but somehow manages to convince people it has a 'right' to govern. Tax cuts - what a have. It's abysmal to think that people are being hooked by such rot. Tax cuts may happen, but do any of you who bleat on about it even think for five minutes as to what that actually means??? Where are your cuts going to come from. Well, how about slashing any public help. People over a certain income go private anyway, so tax cuts Do Not Matter to such people. The real people to be whacked will be the very ones bleating like morons about their supposed sudden rise in income once National hoodwinks its way in. It won't happen. As for the self-made man bit, what a complete joke - as are the comments about honesty and integrity. C'mon, that's pulling a big one, honestly. National can't be honest, or upfront about policies at this point, even this close to the election, for the simple reason it has no policy, only whatever is populist, and should it reveal it's policy, it would be out of favour. In other words, the middle NZ, those pack of whiners going on about their supposed tax cuts, will find out they'll be hit with higher costs in health, education, social services and just about everything else to fund their paltry add-on to the weekly pay cheque. Honestly, some people really shouldn't have the right to vote, this is how people like Bush get elected...

23 Jul 2008 07:56a.m.

Alex wrote:

"after nine years of promised tax cut at election time"

This hasn't been the case. There was some murmuring about possible cuts to income tax after the 2005 election.

Also, I always wonder how people think tax cuts are meant to work. The only change in income tax since National lost in 1999 has been to raise the top bracket from 33c to 39c, which affected hardly anyone. Are we supposed to have endless tax cuts until there's no tax at all? There are times when we need higher taxes, and it's sometimes desirable. It's not a static "lowering tax is better - always".

22 Jul 2008 10:41p.m.

ell wrote:

you forget the brethren voters this time round and they will be a big part of the elections. also Kiwis in aus don't favor Labour after nine years of promised tax cut at election time that never really eventuated for them.