Hard News: Meanwhile back at the polls
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Andrew Robertson, in reply to
When he or she is referring to media reports, probably not.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
...one of them is dead
A fall in the House of Usher?
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Sanya Baker, in reply to
If Colin Craig manages an electorate "accommodation" I wouldn't see his entry to Parliament as anything other than buying his way in - he certainly purchased most of the media attention he has garnered over the last 6 years with his own personal fortune.
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Tim Michie, in reply to
I'm encouraged by Craig's lack of confidence he could win by virtue of his own campaign and policies. National looked wary of these deals and I hope this prevails and Craig is correct.
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Roger Lacey, in reply to
I wonder if Roy Morgan
and Val Morgan are related?How about Captain Morgan?
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Pete George, in reply to
Craig may not get a lot of confidence from Key if his public statemenst are all there is to go on.
Asked whether he was willing still to do an electorate deal for Craig, Key said “he hasn’t approached me”, but believed Craig was not seeking such an arrangement, citing public comments earlier this year.
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/coat-tail-deals-few-weeks-away-says-key-bd-157437
And Key said any announcement on possible party accommodations was "a few weeks away". That's getting close to the election for Craig to find out what electorate he might stand in.
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
I wonder if Roy Morgan
and Val Morgan are related?How about Captain Morgan?
I see you're keeping with the spirit of Ian's humour.
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nzlemming, in reply to
I need to edgeler this bit
I suspect "edgeler" will be in the running for WOTY for 2014
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nzlemming, in reply to
Scary? What kind of chicken shit do you have to be made of.
+100 Score, Stephen! :-)
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nzlemming, in reply to
A fall in the House of Usher?
Russell, we need a "LOL" button...
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izogi, in reply to
Williams is a classic rent-a-quote. He’ll fire out inane press releases and respond to journalists’ calls even when he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Sorry to stray from the original topic, but this story from The Press this morning makes me wonder what's going on even more. Specifically --- "a joint research project by the Taxpayers Union and Fairfax Media".
There seems to be more of a relationship happening there than a simple "please comment" type of thing.
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Sacha, in reply to
Libertarian lobbyists equating performance with not spending, demanding asset sales - hardly news by now, you'd think. Being able to subsidise struggling media organisations must be an enticing enough carrot to excuse the slant, I guess.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
this story from The Press this morning makes me wonder what’s going on even more. Specifically — “a joint research project by the Taxpayers Union and Fairfax Media”.
A bit more depth here
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izogi, in reply to
Thanks for that.
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David Hood, in reply to
My opinion is that it is an outlier poll, we will know in another 2 weeks- I thought it looked to much like the random sample happened to hit a lot of National voters and few Green voters- I just didn’t see the Greens doing anything in those two weeks that would have caused them to lose one third of their support base.
And I stand by my opinion of two weeks ago, though I am sure the latest Roy Morgan will provoke nowhere near the discussion the previous one did.
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BenWilson, in reply to
Yes, what's it at now? 49.5% Nat, 28% Lab? But the buzz has shifted to the Stuff poll putting the Nats on 56% and Labour on 23%. To get a discrepancy of 6.5% in two polls around the same period tells me that they either aren't using anywhere near the same methodology, or something very unlikely randomly happened. I guess the former is more likely.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Shearer looked far from Prime Ministerial.
That is purely because we, as New Zealanders, have come to expect our PM to be a show pony that drinks beersies at barbies, takes the piss out of serious issues and thinks we are not interested in anything other than money.
I think Shearer would have made a great PM, seriously statesman like, concerned, pragmatic and with the kind of empathy that is needed in a good leader. Unfortunately the Media love to showboat and prefer bread and circuses to real leadership.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
I will like totally freak you out with ideas like using a spanner as a hammer in the work place. Or operating a bandsaw when I’m wearing my pajamas.
Or This???
And they say the Greens are scary
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
going gangly busters…
Or This??? …
Argggghhhwhich encourages logic like this…
Laurence Day has given $175,000 to the Conservative Party “and there’ll be more to come”. The cashed-up Hamilton businessman is furious that Kim Dotcom is trying to buy political influence in New Zealand. So Day is putting his money where his mouth is – and fighting back….
The Kim Dotcom thing “really got up my nose”, he says.
“There’s a guy who has a single axe to grind because he tried to, I feel, bribe his way into New Zealand by buying politicians and that didn’t work, they went doggo on him.That adds up,
dislike someone ‘buying’ political favour,
then go and support the latest self-funded vanity party that has bought itself into existence…I bet Craig wishes he was channelling an inner Rimmer!
(…and had even an iota of the appeal Peter Cook exudes…)
and here’s the reality of binding referenda…
and meanwhile the other parties struggle to catch up…Who says you couldn’t write this stuff!
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Mixed Meme Presentations?
Spot the difference:
Two sets of illusionists are looking for public support in September…
and Picard's lot are always available on disk ...The Next Generation has definitely arrived!
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