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Mon, 01 Feb 2010 4:08p.m.

A new poll shows John Key has strong support from Maori voters while Phil Goff languishes (NZPA)

A new poll shows John Key has strong support from Maori voters while Phil Goff languishes (NZPA)

A new poll of Maori voters shows strong support for Prime Minister John Key while Labour leader Phil Goff languishes.

However, the latest Te Karere Digipoll of 1002 Maori voters showed far more party vote support for Labour than National.

The poll asked respondents if they thought Mr Key provided good leadership on Maori issues and 47 percent thought he did while 37 percent did not. A further 16 percent did not know.

Mr Goff scored 18 percent in favour for the same question with 59 percent answering they did not think he provided good leadership on Maori issues and 23 percent did not know.

However, in the party vote stakes Labour did much better than National. Both the Maori Party and Labour scored 38 percent support but only 17 percent would vote National while 3 percent would support the Green Party.

Mr Key was most preferred prime minister on 31 percent, followed by Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples (12 percent), New Zealand First leader Winston Peters (7 percent), Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia (5 percent) and Mr Goff (5 percent).

Labour Party voters among respondents were asked if Mr Goff was the best person to lead the party - 36 percent said yes while 48 percent disagreed and 16 percent did not know.

The poll was held between January 6 and 27 and the error margin was 3.1 percent.

NZPA

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04 Feb 2010 02:47p.m.

kim wrote:

Obiwan
You seem to have made a little bit of a mistake with your calculations there obi.
the 12% that pita has as prefered PM is from maori voters. And assuming that no other races would even consider him 12% of 10% of the population doesn't rate a mention.

02 Feb 2010 11:21p.m.

maori world view wrote:

Have a talk to your teachers about national standards. They do not fit within the Maori world view so our Tangata Whenua are more likely to be marginalised in schools with the implementation of this policy. How is telling our kids that they are failing to meet a standard help them to 'make it up' as Anne Tolley suggests. Should Maori support someone who cannot include all of the tamariki in our education system equally?

01 Feb 2010 04:24p.m.

Obiwan wrote:

These results are as logical as Pita Sharples voting for something but being against - see the education standards.
This is like saying John Key is the leader of the Labour Party....As for Pita Sharples being on 12% as preferred Prime Minister....I wonder if he would be for or against that. Perhaps both, to keep it simple.
One more question I have is how many Maori are left in this country and how much Maori does one have to be to qualify? 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64, 1/128? And which of these were polled, and where the 3.1% error stems from?