Southern support for Mana- Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, Rangitikei

On the stump Dr Peter Cleave has been talking about a southern dimension to Mana support for the last fortnight and this is found in the New Zealand Herald's report of 10.11.11 below.

Dr Cleave has been pointing to two main things. Theseare the support for Clinton Dearlove in Te Tai Tonga and the strength of feedback to his own internet campaign. The latter has resulted in a significant number of Press Releases being run by news agencies on the net.

The New Zealand Herald report below on street polls in the South Island showing four percent support for Mana seems to go with Dr Cleave's assertion of a swell in support for Mana south of Lake Taupo as well as in the South Island itself.

NZ Herald Thursday 10th November, 2011


Mana leader Hone Harawira is in favour of street polls rather than the traditional telephone polling.


A New Zealand Herald street poll has detected more support for parties on the extreme left and right political than is shown in its Digipoll survey.


Hone Harawira says he's heartened by a showing of 4 percent support for Mana in the South island and 3 percent in the North Island.


“They're finally starting to realise when you get away from that old school Digipoll where all you’re doing is ringing people with landlines, and therefore cutting out about 80 percent of the poor and 60 percent of Maori, then you are actually going to get a more true reflection, so I am really comfortable with where we're at,” Mr Harawira says.


He suspects Mana is probably attracting about 2 per cent support, so it has a lot more work to do.