Our elections are all but over...

There has been an on-going debate here and here on the connection between individual morality and the “morality” of government – as it might reflect the sum of the moralities of the electorate.

The Sunday Star Times has today released the results of a survey taken over the past couple weeks (NOTE to David Farrar – I did not call it a poll.)

If I am right, and the government will most clearly reflect the “morality” of the nation then we are in for a change in government in the next election.

This despite the fact that the Labour Party currently leads the National Party by some 5 or 7% or are on par.


To quote from the SST -

Two-thirds of our sample said morality issues would affect the way they voted on September 17 and more than half rated the Labour government's performance on moral leadership poor, very poor, or terrible.

Nearly 60% of respondents believe the government has lost sight of family values.

Attitudes to morality were polarised along party lines. A majority of National Party voters said homosexual sex was wrong and 83% believed infidelity was immoral. And 64% of National supporters believed a politician's adultery would affect the way they voted. National leader Don Brash has admitted to having an affair with his second wife, Je Lan, before the end of his first marriage.

Read the whole article. If there is anything that is likely to indicate the true feeling of the electorate it is this.

Not the usual media "polls".