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8.20pm Ok, time to wrap this up for the night But first a recap, and then some consideration of the parallels to New
Zealand. First, George Bush made it nigh on impossible for John McCain to win this election. Essentially, McCain was
faced with trying to get a mandate for a third term of Dubynomics - ie, Cronyism for Dummies - and for his failed
foreign policy adventures. A hard ask. But then again. McCain made it even harder than it needed to be. More »[1]
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“Don’t get me wrong, John. I’m not your classic climate change denier. I’ve been worried about the future of the planet
since I was 15," says ACT leader Rodney Hide in an open letter to National's John Key. More »[1]
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1.1 Media Coverage of Leading Parties
• Labour led National 37% to 35% in media coverage devoted to parties
• Maori Party led Greens 9% to 8% amongst smaller parties
1.2 Tone of Party Media Coverage
• National received the most negative coverage at 43% of their total coverage, followed by Labour at 35%
• Green Party received the most positive media coverage at 32% of their total coverage, followed by the Maori Party at
29%
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Bill English’s recorded comments on TV3 tonight once again reveal the true face of National, rather than the one their
spin doctors have told them to show to the public, Defence Minister Phil Goff said today. More »[1]
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"Police have completed enquiries into the circumstances of the New Zealand First return of party donations for 2007
lodged on 16 May 2008. Having assessed a range of information from various sources, and having considered the elements
of the offence contained in s214G, Police are satisfied that no offence was committed." More »[1]
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Annette King: "The investigation and design phases of the Tauranga Central Corridor has not yet been completed, so there is no
accurate costing for the project, yet Mr 'Pork Barrel" Key is telling the independent New Zealand Transport Agency what
it has to do." More »[1]
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Scoop co-editor Selwyn Manning: If National pitches itself well this week, especially in the provinces, all electorates south of Manurewa to New
Plymouth could turn blue – the closest exception to this being Hamilton West. Anyway, here are the predictions! More »[1]
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MetService meteorologists are forecasting sunny conditions, with slowly rising temperatures, over most of the country
for Election Day. More »[1]
"All New Zealanders, city and rural, have to work together if we are to make progress as a nation and remain a first
world country," Federated Farmers president, Don Nicolson, said today at the Federation's Manifesto launch. More »[1]
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[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00023.htm [10]
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0811/S00032.htm [11]
[12] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0811/S00079.htm [12]
[13] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0811/S00002.htm [13]
[14] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0811/S00006.htm [14]
Following the announcement by the Minister of Finance that the Crown will offer a wholesale funding guarantee facility
to investment-grade financial institutions in New Zealand, the Treasury and the Reserve Bank have released further
details of the facility. More »[1]
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Westlake Girl’ High School student Paris Kirby, aged 17, was announced the winner of the inaugural Newmarket Young
Designer Award during a full blown fashion show. More »[1]
Conservation staff at Wellington’s world-first Karori Sanctuary have found what is almost certainly the first confirmed
tuatara nest on mainland New Zealand in over 200 years. More »[1]
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November 4, 2008, will be remembered as the night Americans cried for joy. It was not only the hundred thousand partisan
Chicagoans gathered in Grant Park that were moved to rapture. Good people across the nation wept with gratitude that
America ... More »[1]
Electronic voting machines that a Michigan election official said last week incorrectly tabulated vote counts during
testing in the state were used in Minnesota where the senate race between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and
Democratic challenger Al ... More »[1]
Election night 2008 was over by 11 PM eastern time. Only two hours after the polls closed on the west coast, pundits
called it for Barack Obama. Now that we know a black boy can indeed grow up to be president, it's time to get over
ourselves, over ... More »[1]
George W. Bush famously said, ''They misunderestimated me.'' His ungrammatical statements induce sneers and snickers,
but convey powerful truths. After stealing the 2000 election, violating international law, trampling on the
Constitution, and emptying the treasury ... More »[1]
With the election of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States, Americans have taken a
giant leap forward. It has taken this country 219 years to elect its first African-American president (George Washington
was elected ... More »[1]
The deadliest war since Adolf Hitler marched across Europe is starting again – and you are almost certainly carrying a
blood-soaked chunk of the slaughter in your pocket. When we glance at the holocaust in Congo... More »[1]
Judge Karen Nelson Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued an order that ends the
Michigan Secretary of State's unlawful purging of voters from the registration rolls ( court decision ). More »[1]
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"Noites de Bossa" is a proposal of the most exquisite selection on Brazil's known music, promising to transport you to
Ipanema's magnificent warm sunsets along the beach. More »[1]
Canterbury Museum is once again hosting Glass Invitational NZ, a survey of contemporary New Zealand glass art toured by
Milford House Limited and curated by Stephen Higginson. More »[1]
Creative New Zealand will cease recurrent funding of Downstage Theatre from 30 June 2009. Creative New Zealand has been
concerned about the downward trend of audiences at Downstage over time, a trend which the ‘new Downstage’ vision intends
to reverse. More »[1]
New Zealand’s fashion future is in safe hands judging by the design talent on display at AUT’s Rookie show last Friday
night. Twenty one young designers in their final year of AUT University’s Bachelor of Design (Fashion) were selected to
show their debut collections in front of a packed fashion crowd at Auckland’s St Paul’s Church. More »[1]
This Labour weekend marked a pilgrimage to Hamilton gardens for many people with Dutch roots or with an interest in
culture from the Netherlands. More »[1]
New Zealand performance artist Sheba today announced the release of her first single and music video on the eve of the
launch of her debut double album Sheba this Monday November 3. More »[1]
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I want to congratulate Senator Clinton on a hard-fought victory here in New Hampshire. A few weeks ago, no one imagined
that we'd have accomplished what we did here tonight. More »[1]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today extended his congratulations to United States President-Elect Barack Obama, voicing
hope that his election will usher in a new era of multilateralism and enhanced partnership with the United Nations. More »[1]
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The relationship between racism and migration, ethnic conflicts and poverty will all be under the spotlight of the new
United Nations independent expert on racism during his time in office, he told journalists today. More »[1]
Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Development Programme , is conducting a three-day visit
to Mongolia as part of his efforts to promote the global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals. More »[1]
Ending the political prosecution of two Greenpeace activists in Japan will become the central focus of a global mass
mobilisation campaign against the Japanese Government's whale hunt in the Southern Ocean Whaling Sanctuary. More »[1]
The number of people illegally crossing the Gulf of Aden and the Mediterranean Sea is on the rise, the United Nations
refugee agency reported today, as it confirmed that 12 people fleeing Somalia in the past week have been found dead. More »[1]
The UN Children's Agency, UNICEF has described last week's stoning of a 13 year old Somali girl as 'deplorable.' The
girl, Aisha Duhulow, was stoned to death in a stadium of spectators in Kismayo on 27 October 2008. More »[1]
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