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[labellementeuse]

You know what amazes me? The number of people I know who celebrated Obama's victory, but are now going to toddle along to the polls and vote for John. Yes, it's change - but America has just had eight years with George Bush, a righty. They did not like those eight years - at all. People got sick and couldn't afford medical care, people got

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[confusiontempst]

It's important to remember that our centre right (National) is still further left than the American Democrat party, to the extent that analogues between the elections are hard to actually find.

Not that I don't agree with you fully and all.

[labellementeuse]

Oh, I know. And I think it's perfectly rational to say you support both Obama and Key because you think they mix centrist and righty economic values with a decent smidgen of social liberalism. But I'm not hearing that, I'm hearing "time for a change!" And that's, you know, meaningless.

[labellementeuse]

Oh, I know. And I think it's perfectly rational to say you support both Obama and Key because you think they mix centrist and righty economic values with a decent smidgen of social liberalism. But I'm not hearing that, I'm hearing "time for a change!" And that's, you know, meaningless.

[chattycheese]

I would vote Labour, if I could :)

(And I voted for Obama)

[labellementeuse]

Thanks, hon. ;)

[chattycheese]

Seriously, though. I would. keys is such a creeper- the ad with him and the little kids, I thought he was auditioning to be a child molester. That, and Kiwi Saver is so sweet as, man I wish we had something like that. I'd opt in in a second.

[labellementeuse]

Dude, I don't like Winston either and I was furious last election. But this post isn't about *good* reasons not to vote for Labour, of which some do indeed exist, but about one of the *bad* reasons that I have heard repeatedly.