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Why did Hipkins not get rolled within a few months of this unmitigated disaster? Is 2020s Labour really such a talent vacuum that he's the best they can offer?
If only everyone who votes Red to keep the Blues out, even though they vastly prefer Green policy, would actually vote as if the election was a referendum on policy. Rather than a horse race, where a vote is a bet on who's going to "win" based on polls.
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Why did Hipkins not get rolled within a few months of this unmitigated disaster? Is 2020s Labour really such a talent vacuum that he's the best they can offer?
If only everyone who votes Red to keep the Blues out, even though they vastly prefer Green policy, would actually vote as if the election was a referendum on policy. Rather than a horse race, where a vote is a bet on who's going to "win" based on polls.
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Coda: I still think election law should make it illegal to publish poll results in the 3 months before an election. For the same reason we ban campaigning on election day; it distorts the outcome.
Without a regular supply of polls to obsess over, political reporters couldn't cover an election like a slow-motion horse race. So they'd be forced to gird their loins, and talk about .... (gulp, deep breath) ... policy differences between the parties (shock! Horror!).
meanwhile labour says what they’re not going to do, like tax the wealthy
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