Polsters just love it as it creates a profile well beyond reason to give their often unreliable pontificating guessing some attraction.

I could almost qualify as a “political tragic”, some consider me there as of now.

I guess one who played Parliament through headphones while driving a David Brown 30 Crawler back in the sixties would be a slam dunk so finding a sitting PM equal to a challenger from opposition benches on 22% support seems a message that could signify Seppuku a viable option.

No, CHipkins is not going to wave a white flag as he continues to defend the indefensible. Chist on a bike did the moron not see how a faux ditching of so much of what to the cleaner at Frazer House was a driver of some great poll results while the “Bonfire” burned out back of The Beehive following elevation after That Woman ran away. His “honeymoon” figures revealed a support that was largely equivalent to a pool of water in mid Sahara but it did look promising for the Little Ginga from the Hutt before the grim reality returned, and the Lying toad who stood shoulder to shoulder to all that made the current administration the most detested ever.

The support for a sitting PM has long been a rather nefarious indicator in Polling, due in large part in my understanding, from a conflating of the office that emanates from being elected leader of a parliamentary party occupying The Treasury Benches with an elected President in a republican setting.
Voters have no such influence as to who is head of Government, a salient point that comes into sharp focus when a sitting PM dies or is deposed in their caucus, the newly elected leader is automatically appointed PM by the party in their own quaint ways.

What chance does Chloe Swarbrick realistically have to ever become a Prime Minister of a New Zealand Government, for that matter Peters, yet both turn up regularly in preferred PM with support as high as 5% yet the pollsters and the moronic people who it may be said should not be voting at all, such is their lack of demonstrable awareness of the political process, continue with the fallacy. The only occasion such a polling result might be relevant could be if two distinct parties were vying for office with almost equal support in valid polling eg National and ACT on say 25%.

The one aspect of modern polling that should be front and center of much of the comment as New Zealand heads to an October decision is the rarely commented upon “Right” Vs Wrong direction”, a figure that has had Labour in a dunny without paper for months.
CHipkins can just pull his pants up and try to bluff it out, alas he will still smell badly.