Posts by Trevor Nicholls
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I just wonder at people who say that the Greens with their ~6% support should be pushing themselves while excoriating NZF with their ~8% support for making too much of themselves.
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There's clearly a real push now underway in the commentariat to try to engineer a Nat-Greens coalition. The main idea seems to be attempting to shame the Greens into cooperating. But I haven't seen a single exception to the rule that says that the writers of these opinion pieces simply want a National government without Winston, and that they have no Green-cred at all.
If anyone can find me a genuine friend of the environment making the case for a blue-Green coalition I'd be interested to read it.
DPF et al are surveying themselves stupid ostensibly trying to demonstrate that the country wants this outcome. What I hope we realise is that he really isn't interested in establishing what the country wants so much as he is trying to find a way to persuade them that they want what he wants.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to Sacha,
How do we make the editors and producers who let such lies into print or on-screen accountable?
It's probably the media owners and politicians who should be accountable for making their cosy relationships explicit.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to Neil,
Trust and respect – for the politician with some of the most offensive views.
Tell you what, when I lived in England many decades ago the two politicians I had the greatest respect for were Tony Benn and Enoch Powell. From hearing them talk (a lot!) I have no doubt that they each found the other's views on dozens of topics completely offensive, and yet had the greatest respect for each other. Trust and respect do not require agreement.
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Hard News: Where are all the polls at?, in reply to Dennis Frank,
The congenital inability of leftists to comprehend that swing-voters are centrists who control the outcome of our elections is sociopathic.
Would you like some fish with that chip on your shoulder?
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Hard News: The Day After Tomorrow, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Well I hope he's right, but if he is right then a big proportion of these votes will be specials (not just early votes) and we may not know he's right until many days hence.
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Hard News: Where are all the polls at?, in reply to Tom Semmens,
I am going to make my call - A Labour-Green 62 seat win on the back of a late swing to Labour.
Here's hoping.
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Do we know if CB changed their "modelling"? I know they've said they didn't change their "sampling" before their last poll. But if they kept to the same electorate model then there really has been a big shift since the tax bullshit hit the fan, and Reid picked it up sooner than CB.
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Hard News: Where are all the polls at?, in reply to linger,
Or even, are you enrolled to vote this year?
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Our information waterways have been inundated with billshit.