Posts by Sacha
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Speaker: How is Government evaluating…, in reply to
yes, make it an election issue, as it were..
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Access: One in Four – NZ Disability Survey, in reply to
You might be interested in this post about govt secrecy on welfare policy evaluations.
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When the actuarial approach was first publicised, weren’t there concerns about the model assuming that people stayed on a benefit forever – leading to some hefty and utterly unrealistic cost estimates?
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to
Joyce knows about the numbers including undecideds being closer than media is telling the rest of us. Getting each electorate to focus on an absolute target is insurance against low turnout which might shift percentages enough to win or lose at national level.
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Hard News: Radio New Zealand: changing…, in reply to
running down a welli hq has no intrinsic relationship with quality, is all.
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to
Which sounds exactly what Joyce should be saying to an election year party conference.
Yep. They're even setting electorate-level targets as bodies rather than percentages.
"It is not enough to get a certain percentage of whoever turns out," Mr Joyce said. "It's important to get as many as possible people to turn out."
The percentage of votes in the electorate was not as important as the number of people who actually voted."
Mr Joyce urged delegates to take no comfort from recent polls showing National with a strong lead over other parties.
He said comparing the average of the main opinion polls now with 84 days out from the last election, National is now running about two points behind.
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to
"If an election was held today
which is the excuse the pollsters give for discarding all the undecideds.
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to
The party it likes to imagine itself to be is lean and driven, the party it actually is is plump and flaccid. IMHO Labour desperately needs to work out
to the gym! :)
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to
'don't be a dick' is the main Public Address guideline for discussions. I’m not the one who needs to do some reflecting.
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to
Don’t be a dick. Stump up some links or you're no better than the Herald.
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