Neck and neck

Written By: - Date published: 8:12 pm, October 13th, 2023 - 8 comments
Categories: election 2023, labour, national - Tags:

Last post before election day but the big mo is on.

The latest Talbot Mills puts the left at 47% and the right at 49%.  This is margin of error stuff and does not fully reflect what has happened over the last couple of days.

Like this.

Pump it into my veins!

There is clearly a change in mood going on.  People realise that Luxon is a blow hard who would give large tax cuts to mega landlords and take from beneficiaries to do it.

And he has nothing but slogans.  Which Hipkins showed yesterday for all to see.

I am just going to repost this.

And hope that tomorrow will be a good day.

8 comments on “Neck and neck ”

  1. lprent 1

    That is the way I read the election. Really quite close.

    It has been hard for Luxon and his team to display their competence, political and governance experience and substantive policy – when they simply don't have any.

    It is almost certainly going to come down to turnout.

    • mickysavage 1.1

      On the ground response has changed dramatically.

      Interestingly Labour New Lynn came up against Democracy NZ group last week at the Avondale market. I thought there would be trouble but we all finished up fist bumping each other.

      Maybe we (Labour) needs to work out how to build a bridge and repair things.

  2. adam 2

    If you need a laugh.

    Man asks baby about his voting choice.

    Gossy avoid like the plague mate – you will be offened and we'd end up in a flame war which would just piss off incognito no end!!

    https://www.tiktok.com/@raising.rukas/video/7288905817552620808

  3. Mike the Lefty 3

    God i am sick of the whinging of people who don't actually read things properly.

    Complaining that the polls weren't open til 7 pm TONIGHT because they wanted to go to the pub first and then vote. It said that on the notice you were sent – you know the one you threw away because you couldn't be f….d to read it properly.

    FFS!

    The polls used to be open one day only 9 am to 7 pm and if you didn't get down to them you missed out – simple as that.

    Nowadays we are expected to spend many more millions to accommodate the moaners who complain about "having to vote" as if it is a punishment.

    There are a lot of people in a lot of countries who would gladly go through that kind of punishment if they were able.

    My last post – chin up everyone and good luck to Chippy. If we lose then we can sit back and watch the hyenas tear each others' eyes out.

  4. Incognito 4

    Hopefully, good weather equals good turnout.

  5. georgecom 5

    tides going out on Luxon & Seymour and coming in for Hipkins & Greens

    Whether it's enough and whether it will shift enough of the undecided we shall see soon

    Either way it goes, Luxon has hashed the election campaign and gone from a strong majority with Seymour, an election he couldn't lose, to at best seemingly a wafer thin majority and a coalition of chaos. snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?

  6. Anne 6

    Final poll result. Saw it earlier on the Herald website but it seems to have been removed. Otago Daily Times:

    Labour’s latest Talbot Mills internal poll has National on 35 percent, Labour on 30 percent, the Greens on 13 percent, Act on 8 percent, New Zealand First on 6 percent, and Te Pāti Māori on 4 percent.

    It means the left bloc (Labour, Greens, Te Pāti Māori) has overtaken the right (National, Act), with 47 percent to 43 percent.

    https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/labour-gets-late-lift-latest-poll

    I gather the results have been rounded off to nearest percentage point.

  7. Patricia Bremner 7

    It is not over 'till it is over. Let us hope all of the left parties come out to vote in full force tomorrow and shift the dial even more. Thanks to all who knocked called assisted and donated. We all do this for a better place for the future.