. the party vote numbers must be absolutely terrifying the National Party leadership. Only somewhat ... if you made the assumption that Colmar Brunton measured the Party-Vote in Auckland Central accurately & that this 2017-20 swing was mirrored throughout ...
Ha ! ... have a strong feeling Winnie rose again to most Preferred PM (albeit briefly) in the run-up to the 1996 campaign ... have the data somewhere ... would've been around mid-96 as NZF skyrocketed into 2nd place behind National in the polls but then - ...
. Red A bit of a populist at times, he oddly lacked that populist gift of the gab which otherwise might have propelled him over that polling hurdle he never leapt, to 'most preferred PM'. Pretty sure Peters was Preferred PM (in TV1 Heylen Polls) briefly in...
Update on my Parents Just before Midnight last night, their neighbour returns swearing violently along their fenceline & then outside his house, just 4 or 5 metres from their bedroom: "F*king Ct !!!, Fking come here, you Fking Ct !!!, Fking Move, you Fking...
. anker 61,524 = 2.34% of all votes (incl informal & disallowed). = 2.37% of valid votes only.
We might do well to bear in mind that this latest Reid Research poll was largely conducted before the Leaders' Debate (Fieldwork: Sep 16-23) / Leaders' Debate Sep 22. (Vast majority of fieldwork would've been over by final day). You never know, Judith's ...
Fantastic single ... would occasionally hear it's post-punk (slightly gothic / slightly Kraftwerk) tones emanating from my older Brother's bedroom c 1981. Hint of Dada, whiff of Nosferatu, Dub-influenced feedback & echo effects. Always liked it. Then again...
. Labour 2017 Campaign Slogan: Let's Do This Labour 2020 Campaign Slogan: For Chrissakes, Let's Get This Over With !
. Yeah ... but wasn't it Sandy Edmonds herself who informed us way back in 1967: "Oh, Daylight Saving Time, you're going to give me more time to find love with my Bay-bee" ? Wise words indeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YbaYSX_QQU
Despite coming in for a silly bit of flak here back in early Feb, Chris Martenson has always been well ahead of the game. Works from the principle: Perfect is the enemy of Good ... in a fast-moving Pandemic, don't wait for peer-reviewed perfection ... just...
. Least ways, that's how I sees it, says I.
. Probably believes it'll go down well with NZF's target audience. As various iterations of the NZ Election Study have highlighted, the Party's current & recent voters sit at the opposite end of the Cultural-Moral spectrum from Green Party supporters ... (...
. almost 21% undecided ... is particularly high however Yep ... usually 10-15% in pre-Election Individual Electorate Polls.
Undecideds disproportionately stay home on Election Day (or should that be Election Month, these days) ... analysts generally place far too much importance on them.
. If we assumed, for argument's sake, that the Poll was both accurate & reflected the swing across the Country as a whole (a somewhat dodgy assumption but, for the love of Christ, humour me just this once !) ... then: 2017 .......... 2020 Lab 36.9 ..... 55...
Cheers, Grey. This is a good summary for the uninitiated: http://undergroundhistory.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-tragedy-of-phyllis-symons.html Comes up in the media regularly in relation to the Mt Vic Road Tunnel's Tooting Tradition in Wellington. Phyllis's ...
Anniversary of the Savage Govt's First State House Opening ... a personal memoir https://sub-zero-politics.blogspot.com/2020/09/first-state-house-anniversary-personal.html
but history says that the Palestinians never miss a chance to miss a chance. A mindless repetition of the slogan trotted out by Israeli Apologists everywhere. Close analysis of the various negotiations suggests the polar opposite.
. Norman Finkelstein is generally the sharpest (and most well-informed) analyst of the Arab-Israeli conflict ... this is my summary of one of his key insights over recent weeks: Crucially, UAE recognition shows Arab States can now Cross the Rubicon and ...
. National spends Quarter of FB Budget on chasing Likes for Judith Collins The National Party has spent almost $30,000 getting people to 'like' Judith Collins' Facebook page ... Since July her Facebook page has gained roughly 20,000 new likes, at a ...
Evidence is starting to come through The evidence has been there for a long time.
But me does want a cookie ! Least ways, that's how I sees it, says I.
. Khmer Rouge's Year Zero - its wholesale purges & attempted destruction of all existing culture, traditions & norms - continues to be an enormous inspiration to the power-hungry little cabal of Upper-Middle Class Woke. I presume Intersectional Cult ...
I can feel an Enya song coming on.
. While Greenies can be relatively satisfied with their Party's 3.5 point increase to 11.5% in the latest Roy Morgan ... best they don't become too euphoric or take the figure literally. Roy Morgan tend to overstate Green support.... For example, the ...
. Here are some of the breakdowns I tweeted yesterday: https://twitter.com/swordfish7774/status/1300542329858654209 . And ... Support for Extension (ie those who chose either (1) 4 day extension was appropriate response + (2) Should have been further ...
https://twitter.com/swordfish7774/status/1300538075093716993
https://twitter.com/nealejones/status/1299611913492393984
. a bearded chap who's willing to die in a ditch for the Green Party Which is more than you can say for the people of Riverton. Greens took 18 out of 795 total Party-Votes in 2017. Just be mindful, Robert, Greenies have occasionally been burned as witches ...
. Chinese New Zealanders not part of Major Party Support Re-alignment A strong majority of Chinese New Zealanders say they still prefer National to Labour, even though they're pretty happy with the government's Covid response. . Ethnic Chinese voters Party...
Smells like Green Spirit.
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