TV3 poll closes the gap

I’ve blogged tonight’s TV3 poll at curiablog. As one can see below, the gap has narrowed in one key race:

Yep Clark has closed the gap again on Goff. 18 months after she left office, and she is only 0.2% behind Goff. And helpfully still giving lots of advice to his Caucus.

This is in fact the bigger problem for Labour. Preferred PM isn’t that important an indicator as the incumbent PM will almost always lead that poll – except during election campaigns.

But this is the approval rating  of those who say Goff is doing a good less those saying he is doing a poor job.

He started off with some good will, but blew that with the half truths over the Neelam Choudary allegations. That damaged him quite badly, as you can see above.

One just can not get elected Prime Minister with those numbers. By contrast John Key has a net approval rating of +53%. If you break the numbers down you’ll find many Labour voters saying Key is doing a better job than Goff is.

And while Chris Carter continues to make a mockery of his leadership, things won’t approve for Goff.