Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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Rich - you're right about that. Registration is about what you vote in (e.g. which primary?), not whom you vote for.
The US Party system is a lot less disciplined than the NZ one - they are both very broad churches. It's true that it's near impossible for, say, a US Green Party candidate to be elected to Congress, so a serious green-inclined person will probably just seek the democratic nomination...
Of course there's nothing to require a party member in NZ to vote with their party on election day, either.
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If you're a registered Democrat, you can still vote Republican, right?
Rich - it depends on the state.
There are open primaries - anyone can vote in any primary.
There are closed primaries - you can only vote with your registration.
There are semi-closed primaries - independent/unaffiliated voters can choose, but republican/democrat registereds cannot.
There have been blanket primaries - you can vote in both (e.g. in the republican presidential primary, but the democratic senatorial primary).
Maybe a post over the summer break if lazing in the sun starts to get old? :-)
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Well - he has a sense of humour, at least:
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Craig, that isn't exactly what Trotter's piece said.
Trotter's August 27 2006 piece had this quote:
Social peace for a paltry half-million dollars? Strikes me as the most courageous and forgiveable kind of corruption.
And also this:
[If National/Brash had won] New Zealand would now be experiencing civil strife on a scale not seen since the 1860s.
I really wish I had the whole thing.
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if you need an alternative please consider: 'Postcards from the Edge'
Well I certainly still need taglines - like 'Fiona Rae from the couch' or 'The irony is not lost on Keith Ng', so if you want to keep them coming...
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He'll start as soon as we've knocked up a masthead for him.
And there was me thinking I'd start when I'd actually written my inaugural post :-)
If he posts as Legal Eagle I'll puke
Nothing quite so pretentious.
When Keith moved from Poll Dancer to OnPoint, his first post, at the time of the police rape trials, was on the admissibility of prior convictions in criminal proceedings. He interviewed a lawyer - a Legal Beagle. That person was me.
The name wasn't pretentious, and I quite liked it, so I stuck with it.
My next 'blogging gig (no-one tell Che Tibby) was as LBJ (Legal Beagle Junior - cos it works better as initials) on Sir Humphrey's.
[As an aside, at a Great Blend a couple of years ago I was introduced by Danyl to a friend of his, who asked where I blogged, and the look of actual disgust that persisted until Danyl quickly explained my role on SH was pretty damn funny.]
I'm really proud of some of those posts (still available at the Intenet archive WABAC machine), and saw an opportunity to revive the name again - with a suitable promotion - for PA.
Plus, I couldn't immediately think of anything else.
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Thus far we have:
its Business Time
rotation
reconditioning
Rotation and Reconditioning
Carbon
sausage-wallet
Migration (as in bubble)
Carbonista
Terrorista
Urewera
Te Qaeda
robust
random
Guybrarian
Coskriedictory
mum and dad investors
broconomy
Sustainability
Wayne Barnes
versing
World Class
Fizzer
Créditos de carbono/carbocred
Munter and Cheryl
Tuhoe
going forward
Theatre
The Beltway
Stupidiocracy
underwhelming
Common sense
Vindication
Love-Truncheon
Encrapt
demagogracy
nearmissedness
Dyslexia
proportion
Jaffanese
Craft2.0
I-bicycle
sub-prime
refute
Key tooApologies to anyone I missed.
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And if you want to use actual elected office as a benchmark for 'experience', then I'd respectfully suggest Obama has the advantage.
You won't necessarily get disagreement from me on this, but this would mean it's wrong, not empty.
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Put me down for Te Qaeda
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Hilary Clinton's new content-free buzz phase is "ready to lead from Day One."
Really? I'd have said that was a reasonable phrase that carried a message - certainly far more in it, than positive policies.
I'll be a good President, my opponent may be a good president in the future, after he's got more experience, but he won't be one now. We need someone who'll hit the ground running.
About as much as you can actually expect from a slogan.