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   Pretend polling

   Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 10:03 am, November 16th, 2007 -  32 comments
   Categories: polls
   Tags: polls

   Dodgy online polls seem to be becoming a staple of political reporting here in New Zealand. The story earlier this week on poll “hacking” sent me in search of an insightful opinion I’d heard previously. So today, we have a guest author on The Standard – BPGP, on “Pretend polling”. Pretend Polling BPGP So for […]

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   Jockeys change at National – Return of the Hollow Men

   Written By:  John A -  Date published: 5:32 pm, November 8th, 2007 -  20 comments
   Categories: national
   Tags: national

   Chris Simpson has suddenly gone as manager of the National Party, and Steven Joyce and Jo de Joux are back. According to The Hollow Men they are the team who ran the hidden campaigns with the Exclusive Brethren and the racing industry in the 2005 election. This is a strategic shift – it has McCully’s […]

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   Kiwiblog loses the plot

   Written By:  Tane -  Date published: 10:48 pm, November 5th, 2007 -  79 comments
   Categories: dpf
   Tags: dpf

   Regular readers of David Farrar’s National Party blog will be aware that it’s been in a bit of trouble lately. Aside from the setting up of robust left-wing opposition in the form of The Standard, Kiwiblogblog and others, DPF’s had to contend with an increase in left opponents in his comments section who are willing […]

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   PC still going mad, it would appear

   Written By:  Tane -  Date published: 2:48 pm, September 14th, 2007 -  11 comments
   Categories: national
   Tags: national

   One of John Key’s first rebranding exercises after he took over the National Party was to dump Wayne Mapp from his position as PC Eradicator and try to distance the party from some of the more reactionary rhetoric that had become its stock-in-trade under Don Brash. This makes a lot of sense from National’s perspective, […]

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   The view from the back of the National class….

   Written By:  Ralph Malcolm -  Date published: 7:14 pm, September 6th, 2007 -  6 comments
   Categories: national
   Tags: national

   Last night’s debate on the Youth Minimum Wage Bill was (as noted earlier) a triumph for progressive politics and for young people. It was not such a triumph for David Bennett, who apparently is National’s MP for Hamilton East. His speech (mp3 – 2MB) during the debate takes incoherence to hitherto unknown heights. Most of […]