Winding up the Spin Dr's

DPF over on Kiwiblog has been publishing some great graphs of political polling in NZ.

I quite enjoy reading political poll results, it's interesting. What horrifies me about it though is that our political parties use this information to decide critical things like, should they tell the full story about an MP's dodgy dealings and risk an election or should they whitewash the whole thing.

However one way to shake the tree is to always answer ‘Labour’ in all political polling. If asked (in a random phone survey, or any poll) ‘if an election was held today who would you vote for?’ always say 'Labour'. They will get cocky and seek to increase their majority and they may end up shafted by their own greed.