Dogs hold balance of power in UnZed election
A pet food company is gauging the public mood ahead of the New Zealand election by feeding dogs rubber chew toys with likenesses to the two politicians vying to run the country.
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September 23, 2008 10:48 PM
by Adrian Bathgate
WELLINGTON - A pet food company has come up with a novel way of gauging the public mood ahead of the New Zealand's general election - which political leader would you like to see fed to the dogs?
Masterpet has made rubber chew toys for dogs with likenesses to the two politicians vying to run the country after the November 8 election, website http://www.stuff.co.nz has reported.
Masterpet said it will publish sales of the Helen Clark and John Key toys as an informal "dog tucker poll." Whoever sells the most could be in trouble come election night.
"Early data in our reverse poll suggests a preference
for (Prime Minister) Helen Clark," Masterpet North
Island sales manager Peter Couchman told Stuff.co.nz.
So far Masterpet's poll mirrors actual opinion polls,
which show Clark's Labour-led government trailing
the main opposition National party, led by Key.
A Reuters survey of five polls has National on 50 per
cent support compared to 36.3 per cent for Labour.
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