pn569. No Evidence National Voters voted Labour to keep Greens Out

Henry Cooke in Stuff says there's  no evidence  that a significant number of National voters voted Labour to keep the Greens out. The article shows how journalists' opinions often becomes news, and how fact is sometimes supposition.

Election 2020: There is no evidence National voters backed Labour to keep the Greens out 

OPINION: One of the problems with being a pundit or reporter is the fundamental impossibility of understanding why millions of people do what they do.

We are all mostly stumbling around in the dark, with occasional illumination in the form of polls or election results.

But because it is boring to only talk about these scientific measures of society, we latch on to individual anecdotes.