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Podcast: The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Episode: Mike's Minute: Why we should, and shouldn't, pay attention to polls
Description: There are reasons to ignore political polls this year. And some reasons not to. 1) There have been two polls since the election was called, the RNZ-Reid Research one yesterday and the Taxpayers-Curia poll last week. Both tell you the Government, as it stands, will be re-elected, so there's a consistency to them. 2) Both tell the same story, and both don’t. Labour is on 35%-ish in both polls. That reassures you in terms of accuracy. But is NZ First on 10% or 11.5%? And in a crowded field where a point matters, far less b...