New Zealand 2008 election - Instablogs
New Zealand 2008 election
Nov 9 2008, Byron Clark

The New Zealand election proved the old adage that “governments don’t win elections, governments lose them.” Many politically centrist labor voters switched their vote to National, which had campaigned as “Labour lite” pledging to keep...

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