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Speaker 1: One pole tells of something last night by not really moving,

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Speaker 1: and another pole tells of something by being badly misrepresented.

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Speaker 1: Now the one news numbers last night show essentially the

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Speaker 1: government traveling well, most parties are stable, The Greens are

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Speaker 1: down a bit for obvious reasons, but it's all so

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Speaker 1: far within the margin of error. Really nothing's changed. What

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Speaker 1: that tells you is broadly couple of things. One, at

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Speaker 1: the stage of the electoral cycle, people don't pay as

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Speaker 1: much attention as they will be in eighteen months time,

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Speaker 1: and two, the government, with its level of support, is

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Speaker 1: doing basically what they said they would and most people

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Speaker 1: are pretty happy with it. The other pole was on

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Speaker 1: race relations. TV one promoted the fact only ten percent

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Speaker 1: think the government is improving them forty six percent think

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Speaker 1: they're damaging them. What they didn't give the appropriate prominence too,

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Speaker 1: was the fact that thirty seven percent think it's not

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Speaker 1: making any difference at all. In other words, despite all

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Speaker 1: the noise and hoty are being drummed up by the

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Speaker 1: radicals and the media, most of us aren't engaged because

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Speaker 1: nothing is really changing. So if you take the thirty

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Speaker 1: seven who see no change and the ten percent who

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Speaker 1: see an improvement. You've got forty seven, which is in

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Speaker 1: fact more people thinking things raither neutral or better, as

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Speaker 1: opposed to the forty six percent who think they're worse,

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Speaker 1: which of course ties in with why the government numbers

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Speaker 1: overall haven't moved and their support remained strong. The so

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Speaker 1: called drama around Maori policy is not actually politicularly damaging

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Speaker 1: at all. You will note the numbers weren't presented that

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Speaker 1: way by the state run broadcast. A good question might

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Speaker 1: be why not what moves needles is the economy and

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Speaker 1: on that we might be in for an improvement and

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Speaker 1: if we are, what you will then see in the

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Speaker 1: polling is polling numbers most definitely shifting in the government's favor.

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Speaker 1: Maori relations have been tested and testing my entire life.

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Speaker 1: The previous government bent over backwards for Maori, their beliefs,

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Speaker 1: their needs, their causes, and look where that got them.

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Speaker 1: The current government have read the things right. Basically, outcomes

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Speaker 1: are what really count, whether in race relations or the economy.

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Speaker 1: The numbers broadly show they're on the right side of both.

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