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Speaker 1: This polling industry, whose only answer to fairly obvious question

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Speaker 1: seems to be, oh, this is just a snapshot in time,

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Speaker 1: may have trouble explaining the past twenty four hours of

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Speaker 1: polling in this country. One Tuesday night, one Wednesday morning,

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Speaker 1: right have completely different results. One has Luxton the most

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Speaker 1: popular leader, One has Hopkins as the most popular leader.

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Speaker 1: One has National leading Labor, one has Labour leading National.

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Speaker 1: One has the current government as the current government. One

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Speaker 1: has a new government with current government out. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: get a lot more contrasting than that. Even if you

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Speaker 1: accept a lot of the numbers are titish. Some of

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Speaker 1: the numbers aren't even within the margin of era. It's

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Speaker 1: almost as though the poles aren't accurate. It's almost as

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Speaker 1: though you could ring up a thousand people and get

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Speaker 1: one answer, then ring up another thousand people and get

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Speaker 1: a completely different answer. And if you can do that,

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Speaker 1: why would you pay money to people who will tell

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Speaker 1: you these things mean anything. TV and zaid I guess

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Speaker 1: at least use commercial money to pay for the stuff.

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Speaker 1: Radio in New Zealand, who seem to have taken over

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Speaker 1: from TV three, use our money, taxpayers money, and given

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Speaker 1: they've just had a budget cut, and given they're losing

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Speaker 1: their audience at a rate of knots, I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: this can be classed as quality expenditure. I went to

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Speaker 1: their website yesterday. The headline was what the polls are

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Speaker 1: telling us in seven charts, and there they were lots

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Speaker 1: of color, lots of lines and ups and downs and squiggles.

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Speaker 1: But I already knew, given I had seen the charts

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Speaker 1: from the night before, that either their charts meant nothing,

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Speaker 1: or if they did mean something, then the other guy's

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Speaker 1: charts weren't up to much, or quite possibly, if we

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Speaker 1: did the charade for a third time, they would both

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Speaker 1: be exposed as having shonky numbers. Ah, but they're only

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Speaker 1: a snapshot in time, except given they were done at

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Speaker 1: the same time, they aren't are they? So what are

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Speaker 1: they other than a very large waste of time and money.

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