Posts by TracyMac
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Yes, to further expand on concern-trolling with a more blatant example I'm very familiar with:
"But you butch lesbians look like men! Aren't you worried about losing respect from other [read, "normal"] people due to your grooming?"
Thanks anyway, I don't look like a man, I look like butch-of-centre woman. My professional competence, and "business look" tend to get me professional respect. I couldn't care less what anyone else thinks of how I look outside the office. The people I'm personally interested in appreciate how I look.
And this example can be extrapolated to any number of communities/subcommunities who don't fit some arbitrary "norm". Concern trolls aren't worried about anyone else, just in being wankers and/or enforcing their norms on others.
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Legal Beagle: Election '11: the special votes, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Yes, apparently "Dr Brash formerly resigned last night."
No word on whether a Tardis was involved.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Eddie Clark,
*high fives*
And with attitudes like those still abounding, there shouldn't be any wonder that my (gay woman) party vote has never been cast for Labour.
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4000 with that possible lean seems like a pretty reasonable number to help those electorates retain their current MPs. I don't think party votes will make an appreciable difference now, unless the Greens can pull another one of their hat (or Winnie's crew, god help us)
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Can we stick Trotter and Lhaws in a cage and may the best rabid dog win? I think Trotter (and those of his ilk in the party he represents - Waitakere Man is a good one) is reason #1 I still refuse to vote Labour when I have a choice (although I was happy to cast an electorate vote for Annette King).
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So which way do the specials tend to fall? And I'm dying to know how many were cast for Christchurch Central
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Also, my reading of those figures wasn't as catastrophic as yours - I assumed the vast majority of the informal votes for the "which would you prefer" option were those who voted to retain MMP, because it seems likely the majority of those wouldn't bother filling in the second part. The numbers could stack up that way as well.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Sacha,
Thanks for the heads-up on the Listener live blog.
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Keith's map DOES look very funky, and it's gathering stuff already. Very nice.
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So, where are people listing, watching, reading (e.g. live blogs) tonight?
I don't have a teev, so I'm not sure where I should point my browser - whether at a streaming media of some kind, or some interesting people doing a live blog. (Although I assume this thread will fulfil some of the latter, I do want to get an idea of results-as-they-happen).