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Speaker 1: So another poll, another rush of fevered opinion, and yet

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Speaker 1: still so far away from an election. The pole business

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Speaker 1: is booming. Once upon a time we used to have

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Speaker 1: the two TV networks in the game, but now they've

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Speaker 1: been joined by others, keeping the opinion writers in business

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Speaker 1: and Politics as the leading news driver in this country.

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Speaker 1: So this one was paid for by the Taxpayers Union,

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Speaker 1: and A breathlessly reports that New Zealand First is on

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Speaker 1: the rise. It is now the third most popular party.

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Speaker 1: Winston maybe eighty, but it looks like he's here to stay.

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Speaker 1: And the two major parties are pretty equal at thirty

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Speaker 1: odd each. There seems to be no dominant party right

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Speaker 1: now in New Zealand. And other than that, the other

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Speaker 1: takeaway is that we don't really like the leaders of

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Speaker 1: the major parties. Both leaders have popularity rankings less than

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Speaker 1: twenty percent. That could be because they're both demonstrably a

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Speaker 1: bit average. Now that is particularly concerning for National and

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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister who learns that eighty percent of the

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Speaker 1: New Zealanders don't raise them as a PM And why

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Speaker 1: is this? I think it reflects a d disase about

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Speaker 1: where the country finds itself. In a week where we

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Speaker 1: found that we grew not one jot in the last

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Speaker 1: financial quarter. People are wondering why we've got so stuck

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Speaker 1: in the mayre. Now. National's easy answer at the last

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Speaker 1: election in this past eighteen months is that Labour's useless.

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Speaker 1: But eighteen months International's governmance, I feel people are still

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Speaker 1: wondering where we're going and where that Maybe they're a

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Speaker 1: bit useless too, And I blame politics and the urge

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Speaker 1: to and the urge to politicize every issue and to

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Speaker 1: polarize the voters. Our current default position from all our

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Speaker 1: politicians is the other side is crap. Vote for us.

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Speaker 1: But I think the country are saying, Ye're both crap.

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Speaker 1: There is no truth teller out there leading the way

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Speaker 1: through the merk and in this vacuum of leadership, Winston

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Speaker 1: shines by just doing the basics as a foreign minister

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Speaker 1: well and not being demonstrably useless. For more fam Earlily

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