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Comment:Turning on Key
Date published: 2:32 pm, November 25th, 2011I see parallels with 2002 and Helen Clark. Like Key, Helen Clark was a polarising figure with many on the left undoubtedly warming to her while on the right we sneered at her just as the left sneer at Key. Both went into their first election as government ...
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Comment:Open mike 24/11/2011
Date published: 8:55 pm, November 24th, 2011They should give their electorate vote to the Labour candidate as the Labour candidate is in a fight with Rahui Katene for the seat. The party vote could be given to either the Greens or Labour depending which party they prefer. I don't think it matters ...
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Comment:Open mike 24/11/2011
Date published: 8:50 pm, November 24th, 2011Maybe. But 7%. LOL. A question for left-wing/Labour voters. Do you think Labour has focused too much on asset sales at the expense of Labour's other policies?
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Comment:Open mike 24/11/2011
Date published: 3:00 pm, November 24th, 2011and?
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Comment:Open mike 24/11/2011
Date published: 2:19 pm, November 24th, 2011Prediction time: National 51.5% Labour 27% Greens 9% NZ First 4.4% Act 2.6% Maori 2.5% Mana 1% Conservatives 1% Other 1% Probably have the Maori party a bit high. Electorates: Possible swing seats Auckland Central - Nikki Kaye retains Christchurch Central ...
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Comment:TV3 debate: clear win to Goff
Date published: 11:12 pm, November 21st, 2011This site never earlier said anything about the panel. It, along with John Pagani's comments kept referring to the home audience. That is what I was talking about and that is what I was referring to. You can believe what you want.
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Comment:TV3 debate: clear win to Goff
Date published: 10:18 pm, November 21st, 2011I was talking about those at home not the bloody stupid studio worm.
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Comment:TV3 debate: clear win to Goff
Date published: 10:06 pm, November 21st, 2011Well I'm not saying that. Bah the blog is being silly and not remembering my name and email. [lprent: Sorry, I had to turn on a caching system earlier when the site was getting overloaded. Part of that is that it stops sending through the details from your...
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Comment:TV3 debate: clear win to Goff
Date published: 9:53 pm, November 21st, 2011I never brought that excuse. Plenty of rich people vote the left. Smaller than the right of course but of those high income left-wing voters also tend to be more politically active than the right.
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Comment:TV3 debate: clear win to Goff
Date published: 9:47 pm, November 21st, 2011Yes but they're gonna have Linda Clarke and Chris Trotter on as well. I have always enjoyed Clarke and Trotter drives me insane but he always has a few interesting things to say. Though TV 3 are also having Tamihere and Hide for some obscene reason. I'll ...
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Comment:TV3 debate: clear win to Goff
Date published: 9:44 pm, November 21st, 2011What was there to undermine? A wishy-washy academic, Campbell (nough said) and a political journalist that always gets it wrong and is at the least slightly better than the other two political journalists on TV 3.
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Comment:TV3 debate: clear win to Goff
Date published: 9:40 pm, November 21st, 2011Why do you have Maori party at 7%?
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Comment:TV3 debate: clear win to Goff
Date published: 9:37 pm, November 21st, 2011I bet you lefties love that worm now. It was pathetic of you all to scream how unfair it would be in the first place and I have no idea why Farrar and Hooten thought the worm would be good for John Key. Stupid the both of them. Was the worm hijacked by the...
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Comment:The Goldsmith Gambit
Date published: 5:00 pm, November 21st, 2011National need just under 49% on election day and would be likely to govern alone even with a overhang. Special and oversea votes tend to hurt National (so the vote will be slightly down). But crucially the wasted vote will tip National over the 50% mark. ...
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Comment:Open mike 20/11/2011
Date published: 11:32 am, November 20th, 2011Hmm I had the good fortune of doing a bit of a road trip this week. Christchurch to Auckland so was interesting to see all the billboards each party has. Act's were very crap and sparingly suggesting they don't have much cash. NZ First also didn't have ...
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Comment:Mixed polls
Date published: 10:07 am, November 9th, 2011Didn't Labour's own internal polling show Labour ahead prior to the 2008 election? I'm not sure their polling counts for much. I don't see much change in the polls and that can only be a good thing for National. 2011 will be a low turnout. Its a given. Can...
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Comment:Open mike 09/11/2011
Date published: 10:01 am, November 9th, 2011Um Christchurch is a Labour strong-hold. National only hold one electorate seat, Ilam. The voting there outside Ilam and Waimakariri tends to be 50-50 in other electorates or Labour outperforming National. Thus it makes sense for National to work harder in...
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Comment:Open mike 09/11/2011
Date published: 9:35 am, November 9th, 2011Jim Anderton is a loser with a pathetic attitude http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10764687
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Comment:Open mike 09/11/2011
Date published: 9:21 am, November 9th, 2011Turnout will be under 75%.
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Comment:Greens go red, Labour goes green
Date published: 1:30 pm, November 7th, 2011A low fee based kiwisaver provider is fine and all but only if along with low fees and low profit margins they actually deliver returns. Which means a national kiwisaver scheme would also have to deliver a guaranteed return on money paid in. Because its ...
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Comment:Absurd arguments
Date published: 1:57 pm, November 4th, 2011Personally I think Labour should counter with John Key is only looking short-term and Labour has a long-term strategy. I'd even use National's 2025 analogy to go with it. If you vote Labour in 2011 by 2025: * Superannuation will be secure for all New ...
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Comment:Key can't count
Date published: 1:38 pm, November 4th, 2011I find Stuff comments to be rather reactionary to whatever the article is about in a very partisan way. I'm also convinced both National and Labour have engineered false identities somewhere amongst those commenting. And Tom Gould you sound like another ...
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Comment:Labour shows us the money
Date published: 1:32 pm, November 4th, 2011Are you blind, stupid or both? Has Eddie not been saying for the past five-six days how Labour has so much momentum but no you'll continue to be blind as a bat and wah wah about how unfair the MSN are. Truly pathetic.
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Comment:Polls good for Left
Date published: 9:15 pm, November 3rd, 2011There are actually three things to keep an eye on. How accurate will the political polls be. They weren't that bad in 2008 while some of them were hopeless in 2005 (I do suspect the tightness and the fact National faltered due to the Bretherens was a ...
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Comment:Polls good for Left
Date published: 6:16 pm, November 3rd, 2011Always attack the journalist. What a bunch of lumptys. Disagree with a journalist and suddenly they're in National's back pocket. Very desperate stuff and sad really. Especially consider Labour also has a history of having press secretaries that were ...
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Comment:Open mike 02/11/2011
Date published: 8:12 pm, November 2nd, 2011lol the latest Horizon Poll results are laughable.
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Comment:A win to Goff on points
Date published: 9:24 pm, October 31st, 2011? wtf
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Comment:A win to Goff on points
Date published: 9:09 pm, October 31st, 2011I thought Clark won 2 out of the three debates last election at least according to whoever the author was that did the debates last time. Now you're changing history on us. I gotta say you're not very convincing.
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Comment:Goff vs. Key first debate
Date published: 8:15 pm, October 31st, 2011You're a pathetic one aren't you Anne. Can't handle the truth.
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Comment:Goff vs. Key first debate
Date published: 5:05 pm, October 31st, 2011I'm watching Shortland Street.
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Comment:Nats' biggest ever drop in 3 News poll
Date published: 3:20 pm, October 31st, 2011I've been watching too. And no party can expect all their press releases to be included as news. And I'm not sure why you would expect many of them to even be news. Labour's opinions are given prominence. Last year with the gst/tax switch. Labour point ...
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