A surprising poll

All the usual suspects were cock-a-hoop about the 3News-Reid Research poll's release last night. This was the poll that was going to show once and for all how much the NZ public was going to turn away from John Key in respect of the Kim Dotcom-GCSB fiasco.

So nobody expected Duncan Garner to say this:

Mr Key will be buoyed by tonight's results. National appears to have escaped unscathed from his brain-fade over Dotcom. At 62 seats, National quite remarkably could govern alone.

The Labour Party will be gutted that none of the mud that it has flung at the Prime Minister has stuck. John Key is still far and away the preferred Prime Minister at 41%, with David Shearer a distant second on just 8.5% and falling.

3News will be gutted too. Its political team has done everything possible to discredit John Key, with a heavyweight attack over the Dotcom saga. Perhaps the public is suffering from Dotcom Fatigue Syndrome, or perhaps we are simply sick and tired of being told by the so-called "news media" what we should and shouldn't believe.

Or perhaps there's another explanation; swing voters look at the disarray and disunity in the Labour caucus and the inflationary and interventionist economic policies of the Greens, and stick with the devil they know, worrying about how much worse the devil they don't know might be.