Results thread 2014

[Spink]

Does anyone know where I can go to get this suitcase full of carrots? The Carrots down at Pak n Save yesterday were small and lifeless compared to the usual fare

http://www.jarrodgilbert.com/blog/pr...dirty-politics

[pxpx]

Not sure what that has to do with election results but OK.

[fixed_truth]

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

It doesn't seem all that dramatic

2014 (2011)

National: 47.04 (47.31)
Labour: 25.13 (27.48)
Green: 10.70 (11.06)
New Zealand First: 8.66 (6.59)
Maori Party: 1.32 (1.43)
Act Party: 0.69 (1.07)
United Future: 0.22 (0.6)
Conservative: 3.97 (2.65)
Internet Mana: 1.42 (1.08)

National losing a seat won't make any difference because of ACT; but losing their outright majority makes them look slightly less untouchable in the eye of public joe. Had they not gambled with the hope of ACT tail-coating then they would have come out looking better.

[pxpx]

coat-tailing, the term, is coat-tailing

[fixed_truth]

True, and it's joe public lol. Must be beer o'clock

[Cyberbob]

[Ab]

Originally Posted by fixed_truth

National losing a seat won't make any difference because of ACT; but losing their outright majority makes them look slightly less untouchable in the eye of public joe.

Disagree. "Public Joe" neither knows nor cares.

[Ab]

Harawira wants a recount in Te Tai Tokerau:

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland...lection-result

[fixed_truth]

Originally Posted by Ab

Disagree. "Public Joe" neither knows nor cares.

My observation is anecdotal but pretty much everyone I talked in the days following the election - from the gas station guy, to work colleagues to extended family all seemed impressed by Nationals "landslide" win. Of course I'm assuming that these average people who took the effort to vote would loosely follow the news and would have a passing thought similar to 'hmm, so it wasn't a landslide'.

[CCS]

Originally Posted by Ab

Harawira wants a recount in Te Tai Tokerau:

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland...lection-result

Hone is a fucking bludger, just as you once said.

"One of the good things about not conceding, for those of you in politics, is if you concede on the night all your travel benefits stop at 12 o'clock," Harawira said.

"If you don't [concede], you get to fly round the country and go and see all your people for the next two weeks."

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/poli...okerau-recount

[Spoon1]

Yeah he's a fucking tool and needs to go. He's doing nothing to improve racist views about "bloody maarees" with comments like that.