http://08wire.org The smartest political fun in the country Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:30:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We now return to our regularly scheduled lives. Now that the election is over and the direction of the next government is clear, it is time for 08wire to go to sleep. As we said in our closing vid, we congratulate NUFACT on their victory, we wish them well for the ... http://08wire.org/2008/11/10/its-goodnight-from-us/ We concede. 4OAFIjhNo7g http://08wire.org/2008/11/10/video-forever-trust-in-who-we-are/ For nine years, the left has brought good ideas to New Zealand. And there’s plenty more to come. Labour, the Progressives, and the Greens have all said they want to work with each other in a Team LPG government after the election. At the end of the campaign, we need to ... http://08wire.org/2008/11/07/a-final-pitch-from-08wire/ C'mon Team LPG, hold on to that feeling! 3gF3CLtCq6E http://08wire.org/2008/11/07/video-dont-stop-believing/ UPDATED WITH ROY MORGAN RESULT. One day to go, and a 24 hour polling avalanche. Nothing much has changed, which is bad news for Team LPG. Come in, ground game! Five new polls have come out in the last 24 hours, four of which are in our sample of pollsters. The ... http://08wire.org/2008/11/07/poll-of-polls-7-nov/ The debates are over. The last wave of polling is coming. 48 hours to lift-off! I didn’t see the final Clark / Key debate (I was busy watching Star Wars flashbacks on CNN), and TVNZ haven’t put it online yet. Bastards! But the insta-commentators at the Herald seemed to give it, ... http://08wire.org/2008/11/06/no-more-debates/ National and C|T's eight step programme to winning office... 5Gz4HrJwZvg http://08wire.org/2008/11/06/video-gimme-some-truth/ Stephen Franks: Ridiculous amateur. If you go around saying that thing X is evil and nobody should do it, the last thing you should do is have your people do thing X. And even if they do that, the last thing you should do is go out and defend them for ... http://08wire.org/2008/11/06/amateur-hour-redux/ Peter Dunne may attempt to tame the beast of a NACT government by ruling on points of order. Prediction: failure. The Herald reports that Peter Dunne could well be Speaker if NUFACT wins. If Dunne is the Speaker, then he isn’t in Cabinet. That would mean that only National and ACT ... http://08wire.org/2008/11/06/speaker-dunne/ More EFA stunts backfire, more hide-and-go-seek, and more silly statements. If you needed any more proof that this election campaign is degenerating into day one of a pro-am golf tournament, three silly stories over the past 24 hours should have provided it for you. ACT supporter complains about own leader Oops! Rodney expresses ... http://08wire.org/2008/11/05/right-leaning-amateur-hour-continues/