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Comment:Latest UMR Poll - National sinking
Date published: 11:22 am, October 14th, 20201938 (Lab 55.8% vs 1935 45.7%)
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Comment:Latest UMR Poll - National sinking
Date published: 10:44 am, October 14th, 2020Here's something for you Young people with your fancy postmodern hairdos & ostentatious avant-garde attitudes to contemplate: NZ First poll ratings in Colmar Bruntons 2011 vs 2020: ( Note: M12 = Poll 12 months before election / M11 = 11 months before ...
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Comment:Open mike 12/10/2020
Date published: 9:59 am, October 14th, 2020Oct 2020 Age 18-24 ... 72.4% enrolled (326k) 2017 Age 18-24 ... ? % enrolled (333k)
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Comment:Latest UMR Poll - National sinking
Date published: 9:19 am, October 14th, 2020https://twitter.com/secondzeit/status/1316108380151316481
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Comment:Latest UMR Poll - National sinking
Date published: 9:07 am, October 14th, 2020We don't yet know when the fieldwork took place ... Corporate UMR's are usually conducted on a monthly basis over the final week of the month, occasionally spilling over into the first day or two of the following month. So this one might just be a little ...
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Comment:Open mike 13/10/2020
Date published: 4:48 pm, October 13th, 2020Latest UMR https://twitter.com/henrycooke/status/1315857609161752576
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Comment:Open mike 13/10/2020
Date published: 4:33 pm, October 13th, 2020Final round of polling should be interesting. While the odds are pretty heavily against it ... I'm still not entirely ruling out NZF just managing to scrape over the 5% threshold. There are one or two sound reasons that no-one has adequately explored in ...
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Comment:Open mike 12/10/2020
Date published: 12:57 pm, October 12th, 2020. Barely acknowledged, if at all by commentators ... the last Reid Research Poll found a whopping 21% of 2017 -Nats- planning to swing to -Labour-. Not surprising, of course, given the significant re-alignment suggested by all the post-COVID Lockdown polls...
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Comment:2020 election campaign - 6 days to go
Date published: 11:04 am, October 12th, 2020LOL
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Comment:2020 election campaign - 6 days to go
Date published: 10:58 am, October 12th, 2020. All over the bloody place ... it was a complete lash up ... mayhem everywhere ... blood was spilt ... but, yes, over those final 2 weeks the votes swung first & foremost to the -Winstonians- & the -Dunnites-.
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Comment:2020 election campaign - 6 days to go
Date published: 10:43 am, October 12th, 2020I don't think we'll see the same enormous plunge for the Nats as in 02 ... Crusher is more popular with the base than Bill was (though maybe not by quite as much as some Pundits imagine) ... but I wouldn't rule out a milder echo of that Death Spiral down ...
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Comment:2020 election campaign - 6 days to go
Date published: 10:34 am, October 12th, 2020Yep ... just 6% of voters cast an Advance Vote in 2002 (a little over 110k).
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Comment:2020 election campaign - 6 days to go
Date published: 9:41 am, October 12th, 2020. I'll just repeat my Open Mike comment: To buttress his argument that "a 4% swing from Labour to National or ACT in the last two weeks" of the current election campaign is certainly achievable (and thus "there is a credible path to victory for National") ...
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Comment:Open mike 12/10/2020
Date published: 9:28 am, October 12th, 2020. To buttress his argument that "a 4% swing from Labour to National or ACT in the last two weeks" of the current election campaign is certainly achievable (and thus "there is a credible path to victory for National") ,David Farrar cites polling evidence ...
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Comment:Ngaro goes negative
Date published: 1:03 pm, October 10th, 2020His whole ethos sounds absolutely queer.
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Comment:Open mike 10/10/2020
Date published: 9:44 am, October 10th, 2020Preferred PM comparisons (TV1 Colmar Brunton Polls 1-2 weeks out from Election): 2020 Ardern 50 / Collins 23 2017 English 32 / Ardern 34 2014 Key 46 / Cunliffe 14 2011 Key 53 / Goff 13 2008 Clark 37 / Key 38 2005 Clark 42 / Brash 30 2002 Clark 48 / English...
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Comment:Open mike 08/10/2020
Date published: 8:15 am, October 8th, 2020Likely Milestone coming up: -Labour- hitting the 1 mill+ mark for the first time ever. They came so close yet so far in 2005 (935k) & 2017 (956k). -Nats-, meanwhile, are likely to fall below 1 mill for the first time since they hit that particular ...
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Comment:Open mike 04/10/2020
Date published: 2:00 pm, October 4th, 2020https://twitter.com/swordfish7774/status/1312556038365667329
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Comment:Open mike 04/10/2020
Date published: 12:53 pm, October 4th, 2020. 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 ...
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Comment:Open mike 04/10/2020
Date published: 11:57 am, October 4th, 2020Ha ! ... 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 - ...
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Comment:Open mike 04/10/2020
Date published: 10:42 am, October 4th, 2020. 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...
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Comment:Open mike 29/09/2020
Date published: 10:40 am, September 29th, 2020Update 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...
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Comment:Daily review 28/09/2020
Date published: 8:42 am, September 29th, 2020. anker 61,524 = 2.34% of all votes (incl informal & disallowed). = 2.37% of valid votes only.
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Comment:Latest Newshub/Reid Research poll - Labour cruising, National floundering
Date published: 3:59 pm, September 28th, 2020We 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 ...
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Comment:Latest Newshub/Reid Research poll - Labour cruising, National floundering
Date published: 3:17 pm, September 28th, 2020Fantastic 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...
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Comment:Open mike 26/09/2020
Date published: 7:38 am, September 26th, 2020. Labour 2017 Campaign Slogan: Let's Do This Labour 2020 Campaign Slogan: For Chrissakes, Let's Get This Over With !
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Comment:Open mike 25/09/2020
Date published: 9:49 am, September 25th, 2020. 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
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Comment:Open mike 24/09/2020
Date published: 9:07 am, September 25th, 2020Despite 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...
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Comment:Open mike 21/09/2020
Date published: 11:42 am, September 21st, 2020. Least ways, that's how I sees it, says I.
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Comment:Open mike 21/09/2020
Date published: 11:30 am, September 21st, 2020. 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 ... (...
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Comment:Open mike 20/09/2020
Date published: 10:47 am, September 20th, 2020. almost 21% undecided ... is particularly high however Yep ... usually 10-15% in pre-Election Individual Electorate Polls.
- Newsroom daily quiz, Monday 21 June
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