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Week of 8 Jun 2026
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Polar Polls Relevance

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 10 May 2026 · first seen 11 May 2026

The podcast discusses recent political developments in New Zealand, including Christopher Luxon's comments on retirement age, the exit of Kapa-Kingi from the Treasury, a leak of confidential cabinet information, and criticism of polar polls' long-term relevance, all framed within

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  • And then, of course, in the background, uh Seymour and Winston will be chirping. It's not even democratic in the Māori seat, you know, and that's gonna be that that'll be what happens up through to this election. So I think that I'm a bit like you when it comes to voting, too. I'm like, no one's entitled to my vote. I I'm not gonna vote for the sake of um, you know, a strategic sort of a vote. You have to give me a reason to vote for you. I'm not going to engineer a reason that I'd vote for someone else to kind of gerrymander something else. So we're a bit the same in that way. Um, but with this, it's also the idea of what will they do in those seats if it's super super close if the polls leading up to the election, put it on a knife edge. Uh, what will the the government do and say around those things? I guess the the downside for the government is there's no way they're going to win those seats. Um let's have a look. So this is the last um Titai Tokero uh result, and you can see it was only a 517 seat majority. That's that's pretty close to razor thin. Uh and it was Calvin Davis with 9,911 versus uh Maria Mino with 10,428. Now that that there is not an overwhelming anything. No, like it's it seems that a lot of people, Shannon even said it today that Maria Menno is incredibly well respected, hardworking, brilliant at her job and brilliant for her people.
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