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Tag Archives: Voting
‘Not Electioneering’, Key-style
‘Nothing to do with me‘, says Key (and Joyce). After all, John Key explicitly announced in the first minute of the one hour Radio Live ‘PM’s Hour’ that it was an “election free zone”. But that raises the question of … Continue reading
Posted in New Zealand Politics, Political Psychology
Tagged Elections, John Key, Media, National, political psychology, Voting
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Out of control
Sometimes, you just can’t keep things under control in politics. You know how it goes – somehow Treasury documents get accidentally posted on websites; somehow the government’s majority ‘control’ over partially privatised state assets just isn’t what you thought it … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Free Market, New Zealand Politics
Tagged asset sales, ideology, John Key, markets, National, private sector, Voting
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Boil; Pour; Stew – Drink?
The way to get tea so strong you could stand the teaspoon up in it and produce that almost unbearably metallic, bitter tannin taste in your mouth is to follow the age old recipe: Boil; Pour; Stew. Well, they call … Continue reading
Posted in New Zealand Politics, Political Polls, Political Psychology
Tagged Don Brash, Elections, John Key, Media, National, political psychology, Voting
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Election Prediction No. 1 – Fewer than 30,000 people will vote for John Key
It’s clear that fewer than 30,000 New Zealanders will end up voting for Prime Minister John Key in the upcoming elections. It’s also clear that somewhere north of 1,000,000 New Zealanders will, after voting day, think that they have voted … Continue reading
Posted in New Zealand Politics, Political Polls, Political Psychology
Tagged character, Elections, John Key, Media, National, personality, political psychology, self-interest, Voting
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Cut throat politics
It doesn’t take long to collect examples of throat-slashing gestures on the internet: Here, here, here and here – and that’s just for starters on the first google page. Interestingly, they are all incidents in highly charged, competitive, high stakes … Continue reading
Posted in Labour, New Zealand Politics
Tagged Elections, John Key, Voting
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Flagging Voters
Elections depend on votes. What do votes depend upon? Well, flags, for one thing. There’s a lot of other studies that show that many seemingly trivial or even irrelevant factors result in perceptible movements in people’s tendency to vote for … Continue reading
Posted in New Zealand Politics, Political Polls
Tagged Elections, political psychology, Voting
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Who we didn’t vote for
The Christchurch City Council local body elections showed, beneath the bare figures of the election returns, some interesting patterns. (Figures for number of enrolled voters per ward can be accessed here.) There are seven wards in Christchurch City: Banks Peninsula; … Continue reading
Posted in New Zealand Politics
Tagged Christchurch, Elections, Local Government, Voting
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