"At her peak her ratings reached today's "low" for John Key:"

Are you saying, David, that HC never polled over 16%.

Nice spin, as usual from you, but not quiet accurate....

That should read *46%

That's pretty interesting. Of course preferred PM doesn't necessarily translate into winning an election, but it shows that John Key is still sky high compared to his predecessors. It must be true that his reputation has copped flak for some of those policies, but NZers still trust him more than any of the alternatives - David Shearer hit a massive 10% Preferred PM rating on 3 News. I don't know where the other ~30%, after Winston's ~5%, went. Maybe to Russel & Metiria?

PM popularity ratings are always a little dubious. Although there maybe a few people who base there voting habits on who they would prefer as PM, I don't think the majority get sucked into that US style personality cult.

Take the likes of George W. Bush after 9/11 his popularity rating was around 80%, by the time his disastrous regime ended he was struggling to get over a 20% popularity rating.

John Key will begin to plummet in popularity as his MPs natural coordinator class arrogance gets the better of speeches which have been carefully manicured for them.

I hope you are going to show the garph again in 3years time I have a feeling Mr Key's black line will be so much lower.

BTW David are you short of negative stuff to blog about?

Could I make a few suggestions?

Crafar Farms debacle

Breaking election rules debacle.

No Jobs debacle.

Children living below the povery line debacle

etc etc etc

WHERE IS JOHN I MISS HIS BLOGS.

As usual, or often enough, a blog which highlights John Key , while ignoring certain other realities.

Firstly, the Maori Party aren't Centre at all.....they are committed to racial separatism with effectively a separate Maori Nation operating within an NZ framework - separate fag, language, subtitles, law, prisons, social care, schools , etc etc.....and pandering to wealthy Iwi groups. That's not centre and it's very dangerous.

They are very much aligned with National and Labour would do well to leave them there , while attending to genuine Maori poverty and development issues, and work schemes - which they could be pushing, with Harawira. Though Mana is too radical overall and they don't need such an alliance.

The swing to a centre left co-alition, led by the more centrist/inclusive David Shearer , will be massive, and has started already. Watch as National's credibility and asset selling drags them further down.....and Key retires before the 2014 massacre, giving Domehead Joyce a chance.....and Bill ENglish the opportunity to sell even more assets to keep their money masters ( incl IMF )happy .

The IMF has already told Greece to sell everything, incl ports and the national lottery. They represent a world controlled by trans-national banks.

Eventually , even more of the Really dumb will work out that selling assets is a con. Selling the milk - not the farm and cows ought to be obvious ?

God you Labour supporters are pathetic. At least he always provides figures to back his argument up and is critical of National when justified (unlike John Pagani). If you are going to blindly write off everything he says then why read the article? Shows how small minded you really are.

I'm thinking that you knocked this one out in a hurry as there isn't much to it.

That is today's blog? 150 words and a graph. How informative.

The reality is that the poll is important because Key will not like dropping in the polls. He thinks he is Mr. Popular and also seems to think people invite him to events because he is John Key, former corporate trader, not because he is PM.

The gloss will start to wear off because he has had his photo taken and shaken the hand of virtually everybody in NZ. I still love the photo op during the election campaign when he reached for a baby and the mother said she likes people and will go to anybody. She took one look at Key and burst out crying! If only the electorate was as smart as that infant.