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Nothing drives left-wing nerds wild like a graph that isn’t to scale.

Twitter lights up when a television news poll makes it seem as if the Labour-led Government’s lead over the opposition is smaller than it really is. The same thing happened when a National Party bar graph made it appear as if rent rises under Labour were larger

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