The trouble with polls

The Problem - the latest poll puts National at 53% and Labour at only 36%. Better still it seems that John Key is now the preferred prime minister.

But how accurate are these polls? Only a thousand voters were sampled and there was an error margin of 3.1% which is more than United Future, Act and the Maori Party polled collectively.

In 1999 Labour formed a government after only polling 38% the day before which only goes to show, the only poll that matters in the one on election day.