#election2023 — Public Fediverse posts

"The country didn’t emphatically want National, it just wanted Labour less. Labour’s vote went left to the Greens, it went right to National, it went to Te Pāti Māori, and it stayed at home.

And staying at home speaks of something larger than pendulum swings, and tides, and cycles. It speaks of people being lost.

And when Labour loses people like that, what, exactly, is the point of Labour?"

#JohnCampbell

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/10/28/john-campbell-what-exactly-has-the-tide-brought-in/

#NZPolitics #Election2023 #NZLabour

Hey NatACTs, may you live in 'interesting times' : P

"Having said 'coalition of chaos' so many times his tongue got repetitive strain injury, Christopher Luxon now finds himself in charge of one."

#JohnCampbell, Nov, 2023

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/11/03/john-campbell-the-numbers-mean-christopher-david-and-winston/

#NZPolitics #Election2023

2) #BrandonPresley’s campaign video makes the case for a shift to better governance where incumbent governor #TateReeves is a man with “zero conviction and maximum corruption”. That’s a tag line that could be attached to many #GOP candidates

#USPolitics #Politics #Election2023 #Mississippi

https://youtu.be/m7V8u4ruZYk

Can a #Democrat win the governor’s race in one of America’s reddest states?

Will a focus on #Mississippi’s regressive grocery tax, #GOP refusal to adopt #Obamacare and the scandal surrounding current #Republican governor #TateReeves create a space for #BrandonPresley to overcome traditional political divides in the #DeepSouth state?

#USPolitics #Politics #Election2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opinion/editorials/mississippi-brandon-presley.html