Jono sums it up and thus my thoughts up in a nutshell on what went right for National and what went oh so wrong for the Left Wing.
At the end of the day it all fell over for the Left last Monday with a certain Moment of Truth.Well it was a Moment of Truth with National now on a very solid foundation for a fourth term as Key will stick with Centrist policies with some dabbling to the Left and Right along the way.
So National is looking for her Fourth Term and the Left are busy blaming everyone else and eating themselves. It also shows Twitter is a rather loud cold echo chamber to a large but not all extent as well.
For example my Tweeting services at a Council Committee is highly utilised as people and even the MSM follow it.I will put a second post up on what this all means for Auckland Council shortly. However, eyes now turn to the 2016 Local Elections.
So, in the end it wasn’t even close. Unless the special votes are dramatically out of kilter with the votes counted on election night, National has the numbers to govern alone.
The worse-case scenario now for National is that they lose a seat to the Greens, meaning that National would need one of either ACT or United Future to pass legislation. It’s not such a terrible worst-case for the Nats – both ACT and United Future are entirely dependent on National for their continued survival; they wouldn’t be giving National too much stick. Besides, as Graeme Edgeler writes at Public Address, if the special votes are distributed in the same proportions as in 2011, there’ll be no change to the makeup of Parliament.
So how has National managed to defy the laws of electoral gravity, while Labour plumbs new depths, and the minor parties are all left licking their…
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