https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/quizzes...er-23-2020

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/quizzes...er-22-2020

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/quizzes...er-21-2020

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When they learn that Labour is going to govern alone without them in any coalition like they are so used to when working with them.
The way the greens were talking last night, it was like they were assuming this would naturally be the case.
Labour dont want any difficulty working with other parties, and now that they dont need to, I dont see why they even need to work with the greens at all.

Almost 1.75 million advance votes so far. Huge! Good that they get to start counting them from tomorrow morning - don't want to stay up all night waiting for election results.

See that Maori enrolments have increased dramatically this election. Starting to wander if the Maori Party might snaffle back a seat from Labour and add a little spice to the coalition talks.

Last night's "debate" was a snoozefest. Both leaders seemed tired (sitting them down didn't help), the audience was pointless, and the questions were dull. Media tried to make something out of Ardern saying she would stand down if she lost. If the public didn't want her, then why should she remain? Better that than staying on and sucking off the public teat for the next 20 years.

Greens look a bit safer after last night's polling, and they'll benefit from the on-the-day voters not giving their votes to an apparently safe Labour. Winston was up a % too, he's making a late charge but might have left it a bit late.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/quizzes...er-15-2020


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Judith is having a weird final week before an election.

Going after the obese is not typically a vote-winner. Essentially calling your deputy "weak" and for that matter, most of Samoa, is a brave if somewhat disrespectful move.

Seems to be very focused on this wealth tax thing, which will mainly affect your typical National voter so I'm not sure who she is trying to win over. Ardern will be getting sick of answering the wealth tax question over and over again.

The media have been taking great enjoyment from showing Collins in a downward spiral as it makes for good viewing, but I can't see it playing out as badly as they're making out. Sure, she looks grumpy and the internal polls that she's not releasing are probably not good, but the blue voters are there.

Not sure what the impact of the advance voters is going to have. They're at 1.4 million already which is very solid going. Do early voters lean in a certain direction? They always used to say that overseas voters were more left than right.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/quizzes...er-14-2020


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My son has had it, in London way back in March. He had been sent home from work as his office was being deep cleaned after his manager had tested positive for it. A few days later he wasn't feeling well and was supposed to be flying out to NZ that week, so he rebooked his flight with Emirates for November (now that is cancelled as well). he did manage to get a refund for his ticket and is still working from home. He wasn't even sure in the beginning that he had the virus as he didn't have the symptoms that were being talked about then - fever, cough, trouble breathing, But he thought it very strange he'd completely lost taste and smell, and only a slight fever at night. It took him a while to get those back and he didn't feel like eating. Since then he's just been carrying on as usual and has even had a couple of holidays, in Dorset and Lake District. I'd like him to come back and he had been talking about it before all this happened, but not sure about the job situation for him now.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/quizzes...er-13-2020


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