Archive for July 29th, 2005

More debates

Friday, July 29th, 2005

As I predicted it would on Tuesday, TV3’s method for choosing which leaders to have in its debate is proving completely arbitrary. Act and United polled within 0.2% of each other in last night’s TV3 poll, yet it seems that one of these parties will be culled from the debate, because the network has decided […]

Winston’s motives

Friday, July 29th, 2005

It is no coincidence that Winston’s extraordinary attack on Kiwi Muslims came amid a string of poll results showing his party bleeding support and losing its kingmaker position. If NZ First gains roughly the same amount of support as the Greens (as most of the last few polls have shown) and Labour maintains its support […]

The fork in the road

Friday, July 29th, 2005

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Morgan Williams, yesterday released Future currents: Electricity scenarios for New Zealand 2005-2050, a new report that looks at the future of energy generation in New Zealand.
In the accompanying media release he describes the two scenarios his report lays out…
One paints a ‘business as usual’ picture […]

When you’re worried, go ballistic

Friday, July 29th, 2005

National must certainly be worried about the two polls out this morning - it’s six points behind Labour, and still the effect of the student loan policy to be felt… If the hysterical reaction from the Right to the student loan announcement is anything to go by, National is seriously spooked by what the polls […]

A tripod of voting intentions

Friday, July 29th, 2005

The three polls published in the last 18 or so hours are a real mixed bag for the Greens.
The NBR poll (not online) has the Greens drop from 9 percent in their last outing to 7 this time. This is no great surprise, as Rod said in the Dom Post at the time of […]