KEY POINTS:
It seems one party is getting the green light in most polls and that is the Green Party itself.
A shock Roy Morgan poll out today puts the party at 11.5 per cent (up 2.5 points) and would give them 15 seats in Parliament.
Even ageing hippie-athlete-designer Mike Ward would be brought back into Parliament on that count.
He was given a place in the list wilderness for faffing around instead of making way quickly for Russel Norman to get into Parliament when Nandor Tanczos left.
The Greens' high rating in the Roy Morgan poll is at the expense of Labour however, which is down 5.5 per cent to 32 per cent but could govern with the Maori Party - as could National with the Maori Party.
Even Act would get four MPs, assuming Rodney Hide keeps Epsom, including Sir Roger Douglas and John Boscawen.
While the difference between National and Labour varies a lot between polls, and NZ First is up and down, the most consistent trend is that the Greens are on the rise.
In the TV3 TNS poll last night they were up two points to 8.8 per cent.
Last week's Fairfax poll had them up two points to 7 per cent.
In the Herald DigiPoll survey this morning, the Greens were up only slightly, but up, by 0.5 to 5.4 per cent.
Only the One News Colmar Brunton poll has them heading south, five points last week, down from 8.
The trend is against the backdrop of what has been a singularly boring Greens campaign apart from Jeanette Fitzsimons' daring bungy jump this week from the Kawarau Bridge near Queenstown.
Yes, it does have the best billboards but something else is at work.
I have lost count of the former Labour voters I know who are voting Green this election. They trust Labour, but only as far as they can kick them.
The Roy Morgan Poll
National up 2.5 to 43 per cent; Labour down 5.5 to 32 per cent; Greens 11.5 (up 2.5).
NZ First 4.5 per cent (up 0.5); Act 3.5 (unchanged); the Maori Party 2.5 (up 0.5); Progressives 0.5 (down 0.5); United Future 0.5 per cent (down 0.5).