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POLL OF POLLS
National got 48.1% on election night figures, while the Poll of Polls trend was pointing to 47.5%, which is where National will end up if it loses 0.6% on special votes as happened in 2011.
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POWER PLAY with Brent Edwards
24 Sep 2014The revision of history has already begun. Read the blogs and tweets of some hardcore Labour Party supporters and you would believe the election result had…
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POLL OF POLLS
6 Oct 2014The final election figures for the most part came out close to where the Poll of Polls trend was pointing. National has 47.0%, down from 48.1% on election…
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POLL OF POLLS
19 Sep 2014National continued to slip in the final polls to a four-poll average of 46.4%. That would still get it back into office with the support of ACT and United…
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POLL OF POLLS
18 Sep 2014National has lost ground in the latest polls to an average of 47.5%. That would still get it back into office with the support of ACT and United Future.
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Ask Away: Leaders respond on GCSB
19 Sep 2014Following Edward Snowden's allegations, Radio New Zealand and Ask Away hosted a Q&A about the GCSB - and artists' benefits, cage eggs and prisoners' voting rights. Comments
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CORRESPONDENT
18 Sep 2014With another election looming on Saturday, what are some of the main political issues for tāngata whenua? Te Reo Māori, education, housing and employment are on the list.
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POLL OF POLLS
16 Sep 2014National is again in the box seat with 48.6% in the four-poll average - enough to govern alone. The surveys include a Fairfax poll published in the Sunday Star Times.
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POLL of POLLS
15 Sep 2014National goes into the last week with enough support to govern with just ACT's David Seymore and Peter Dunne of United Future. Its latest average was 47.1%.
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POWER PLAY with Brent Edwards
12 Sep 2014Power Play with Brent Edwards - John Key says the country is on "the cusp of something special" and voters should not put that at risk by changing the Government. Audio
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POLL of POLLS
11 Sep 2014A new TV3 Reid Research poll published on 10 September kept National firmly in the box seat at 50.3%, fractionally up on its most recent four-poll average reading.
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POWER PLAY with Brent Edwards
9 Sep 2014Power Play with Brent Edwards - After a week of news, National Party leader John Key announced his tax cut package yesterday. Except it was not a tax cut package. Video
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POLL of POLLS
6 Sep 2014After this week's stream of polls, including TV1's poll published on the evening of September 5, National is back in the box seat with 50.2% on the latest four-poll average.
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POWER PLAY with Brent Edwards
5 Sep 2014Power Play with Brent Edwards - Next Monday the National Party leader John Key is set to announce its tax cut plan, except it will not be a tax cut package.
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BlogWatch: Whaledump And Twitter Anarchy
4 Sep 2014Twitter's suspension of the @whaledump account today raises an interesting question about the micro-blogging medium: Which accounts it suspends and which ones it doesn't?
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POLL of POLLS
29 Aug 2014Both major parties have slipped in polls taken in the wake the book Dirty Politics. National slid below 50% to 49.1% and Labour is back down to 25.5% after briefly crawling over 26%.
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POWER PLAY with Brent Edwards
29 Aug 2014Power Play with Brent Edwards - John Key launched the National Party's election campaign on Sunday and it was no accident the party chose South Auckland for the rally.
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BlogWatch: Anatomy of misinformation
27 Aug 2014BlogWatch columnist Peter Fowler looks at the controversy around the song "Kill the PM" and how misinformation about NZ On Air spread quickly online.
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BlogWatch: Keeping an eye online
1 Sep 2014In the first column in a new series Peter Fowler looks at Pam Corkery's castigation of journalists, National's housing policy launch, Kim Dotcom, and growing worries about trolls.
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POWER PLAY with Brent Edwards
23 Aug 2014Power Play with Brent Edwards - This week, probably the most important election document was released. But, unlike Nicky Hager's book, it got scant attention.
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POLL of POLLS
22 Aug 2014The first poll taken after the Nicky Hager book launch, by DigiPoll for the New Zealand Herald from August 14 to 20, did not dent National's polling average.
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POLL of POLLS
19 Aug 2014Election 2014 - National's polling average was steady up to early August in the poll-of-polls at 50.2% while Labour's average dropped to 26.4%. Two new polls were released on Sunday.
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POLL of POLLS
15 Aug 2014Election 2014 - A new Fairfax Media-Ipsos poll again has Labour at a basement rating of 22.5% and National cruising at 55.1% - but the poll-of-polls scarcely budged.
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POWER PLAY with Brent Edwards
15 Aug 2014Power Play with Brent Edwards - Let's be clear. Investigative writer Nicky Hager's new book Dirty Politics is not a book only relevant to political insiders.
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POLL of POLLS
9 Aug 2014Election 2014 - Analysis of the latest four opinion polls shows National is vulnerable to a loss if it loses four percentage points from its current support. It is the first column in a special…
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POWER PLAY
14 Aug 2014Last week race was raised as part of the political debate leading up to the general election. This week the other old chestnut of foreign ownership hit the headlines.
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POWER PLAY
14 Aug 2014You know the election is not far away when political parties start ramping up the rhetoric on race relations. The race debate has flared on two different fronts this week.
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POWER PLAY with Brent Edwards
21 Sep 2014Power Play with Brent Edwards - Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom was the most brutally honest politician on election night and he was not even standing for office.
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