The one person who will be relieved at tonight's 1 News Colmar Brunton poll is National leader Simon Bridges, but only slightly.
He and plenty of others would have been expecting a far worse result than this poll which has National falling by two points to 40 per cent and Labour rising by three points to 48 per cent in the past two months.
That does not mean that Bridges' leadership is secure.
But it has not sunk so low that it would force a leadership change yet.
And no one would launch a coup on the back of a national tragedy which undoubtedly has had an impact on the polls.