'How did he win?'

Amanda Riddell
5 hours ago
1 min read

Inertia. National has never won after switching the leader this close to an election. Essentially, he won three months ago and therefore he keeps winning. The trick is getting the country to tune him out... he's a quintessential non-entity.

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Amanda Riddell

4 hours ago

A thought: what if graffiti artists painted over Luxon's face in black or flesh tone? Given the ads are ubiquitous, we need to defang them. There are no bad ideas!