Daniel Stride

Author and geek. Into reading, writing, medieval re-enactment, foreign languages, and cats.

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@Liquid_Times In fairness, the motion of impeachment was put forward by a Republican. A dozen Democrats made a point of not showing up for the vote.

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@PronouncedHare Labour lost provincial seats because the larger MMP electorates have meant that the provincial centres are now outvoted by the farmers.

This wasn't an issue in the 1990s era (up to 2005) because the provincials associated National with Ruth Richardson, and voted accordingly.

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@lefineder Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was bi.

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@realTheoElliott I'm not American, but are which era of Stennis are we talking? Dude was in the Senate for four decades.

(If it's Eastland versus Hyde-Smith, I'm voting third party).

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@lyndonbajohnson Florida's expensive, and no-one thought Louisiana or Mississippi were winnable until it was too late.

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@peterpa19659647 @warwick512 Because if you tell the Greens that they need to electorate vote Labour to get the Greens in govt, they go on about how much they hate Labour.

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@ajthompson13 Wait for the specials.

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@MattPrinciple @lefineder Greek Stoicism exists as fragments (the complete works are Roman authors). Ancient Epicureanism is even more thin on the ground. Recovering this stuff is amazing.

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@MasterVril It'd also make perfect sense for National to hold up better in Auckland. Auckland is a right-wing city.

Also, if right-wing Asians can't stomach Labour, they'd be voting National and not for National's partners. The Labour swing was clearly fear of NZ First.

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@MasterVril Relative to 2023, the areas that swung to Labour nationwide were heavily Asian ones. Including Wigram and Hamilton. Basically no one else swung, and Pasifika decided they liked a bit of Winston.

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@cloisteredoysta @TheZeitgeistNZ The Greens and Labour are two very different parties, in terms of who votes for them. Until NZ First's latest rightwards pivot, the average Labour provincial voter would be closer to NZ First.

(By contrast, TOP are basically posher Greens).

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@cloisteredoysta @TheZeitgeistNZ Your notion that Labour voters and social conservatism somehow don't mix. Labour voters aren't Greens, you know.

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@cloisteredoysta @TheZeitgeistNZ Never met provincial Labour voters, have you?

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@TheZeitgeistNZ Go and look up 2017. That was the pesky provincials imposing a Labour Government on Auckland.

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@Liquid_Times Hipkins would have been far better off referencing 1978 and 1981 as broken results, and saying he wants to work with all parties to fix the electoral system.

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@KajensAngel @Tiare_MP The current gap is 17,056. Based off, say, 2017-style specials, that'd be very easily overcome, never mind 2020. On 2023 specials, which were unusually Right-wing, the margin would be cut to 6,000.

So unless you think we're re-running 2023, Opposition favoured.

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@MikeStuchbery_ 1950? Five years under Attlee, with Welfare State, NHS, full employment, et cetera.