Heather Duplessy-Allen

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Heather Duplessy-Allen.

I'm not one to get excited at election time about the outside chance that some small party's going to make it into Parliament, but I reckon this year's different.

I reckon if opportunity plays this right, they may actually do it.

They've got a good chance.

Yesterday's Roy Morgan poll had them at 6%.

Now, I don't know how much stock I put in that poll yesterday.

It was really volatile.

National went up 5%.

Labour went down 7.5%.

And I think swings that big have got to be questioned because they just don't seem credible.

But this is now a trend for opportunity.

They are now sitting close to, or in this case, above five in multiple polls.

And knocking off 5% is the one thing they really have to do because this is the biggest hurdle for a small party trying to get in from the outside.

Voters do not want to vote for a party if they don't think it's going to make it in.

It's a weird part of our voter psyche that makes no sense, the wasted vote thing.