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To: elmatador who wrote (579)	9/18/2005 2:39:57 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217948

ElM, the main political parties know that they have to keep their extreme wings quiet or they will not win the elections and will watch from the sidelines and therefore not get any of their ideas enacted. So, they have to look very much similar, with just slight differences in one direction or the other to garner sufficient votes to win. After winning, then they can segue to their true direction until the next election, but not too far or they'll be turfed out and be on the sidelines for a couple of elections as the incumbent has the advantage. I put quite a bit of effort into the Epsom electorate, to ensure Rodney Hide was elected. We succeeded and thereby changed the political landscape of New Zealand. That was an excellent results:effort ratio. Act's two seats has stymied Helen Clark who would otherwise have trampled across the landscape unimpeded. I am feeling very smug. act.org.nz Though of course I am disappointed that the average Kiwi prefers more socialism, taxation and kleptocratic government bureaucracy, regulation, form-filling and permit process. We have a dopey electoral system in which parties have to get over 5% of the vote, or win an electorate, to have any representation in parliament. That absurd 5% causes distortions such as in Epsom, where Labour voters voted for the National party candidate and the National party voters voted for the Act candidate, rather than the candidate they would rather support. It should be a 1% threshold in a 100 member parliament, not 5% in a 120 member parliament. Mqurice PS: Bubba the Bigot would be interested to know that New Zealand Chinese support Act very heavily and Act had the first mainland-born Chinese MP in the world. He should ponder why that might be. He probably is unable to figure it out. He can't figure it out because he is a racist bigot.