Comments on: Goff blames lack of photos on 2011 loss!

By: ben

ben — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:33:55 +0000

Bias is surely detected by reference to other campaigns. How does Dr Robinson control for the fact that Key was also the incumbent PM? National also polled higher, and causation probably goes both ways. Alleging bias without controlling for these would be pretty unhelpful.

By: rouppe

rouppe — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:48:57 +0000

This raw statistic is worthless. When Helen was Prime Minister she would hold back policy announcments until the 9 months leading up to an election. Never mind what was ready, what was good for the country, she held them back so they would be announced in a flood just before the election. This media headlining was not electioneering so allowed the incumbent government to vastly dominate media coverage.

Short memories…

By: thedavincimode

thedavincimode — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:48:49 +0000

3-coil

You appear to have zeroed in on Goof’s fundamental problem.

By: Chuck Bird

Chuck Bird — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:45:21 +0000

Clare Robertson goes on about media bias. How many lefties like her are on Q + A compared to those of the right if there are any political scientists right of centre?

By: ross69

ross69 — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:15:45 +0000

[DPF: And for the record Key was a currency trader, not bonds. The fact you don't know the difference suggests you have problems balancing a cheque book]

That’s a bit rich coming from someone who doesn’t understand how school zones work, and who thinks the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are one and the same.

[DPF: Don't lie about me or you will be gone. I have not got either of those wrong]

By: barry

barry — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:11:16 +0000

Well – what a fuckwit………

Typical left/liberal idiots – blame the photographer – in fact blame anyone but their own deficiencies……

By: 3-coil

3-coil — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:59:22 +0000

Goff is just confirming what was obvious to all the voters at the last election – he is still a knob.

By: greenjacket

greenjacket — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:58:00 +0000

“a Massey University expert…”

Say no more – you know it’ll be rubbish.

By: Bed Rater

Bed Rater — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:54:01 +0000

I know you probably get a sub editor to write your post titles, but that looks really terrible.

By: orewa1

orewa1 — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:53:10 +0000

Hey DPF – isn’t your headline a bit of a stretch?

The article quotes Goff as saying the bias “…didn’t help his result” and later “it would have substantially helped to have had favourable coverage and greater coverage, and particularly of photos.”

That’s somewhat short of blaming lack of photos on the 2011 loss (followed by an exclamation mark) as per your headline.

Furthermore, being a grammar pedant, I think you mean it the other way around – “..blames the 2011 loss on lack of photos.”

[DPF: Goff is an idiot to have commented. He looks like a bad loser. Mitt Romney in all three debates had significantly less time to speak than Obama. Do you see him sounding petulant and saying that didn't help]

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:50:19 +0000

I thought Phil Goff was a good minister for foreign affairs but wasn’t leader material. A leader has to be more than a technically competent politician. Look at Muldoon, Lange, Helen Clark and now John Key. All had strong character and personality. Shearer doesn’t appear strong enough at this stage.

By: Grant Michael McKenna

Grant Michael McKenna — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:39:28 +0000

How many pictures were shown in previous elections? Were Brash and Clark equal? Is this perhaps simply the incumbency effect?

By: Chris2

Chris2 — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:29:28 +0000

What concerns me more is that a university professor, doubtless on a six-figure salary paid for by the taxpayer, is doing the type of research that a high school student could accomplish.

By: Falafulu Fisi

Falafulu Fisi — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:04:26 +0000

Physics jokes from here:

Q: Why are quantum physicists so poor at sex? A: Because when they find the position, they can't find the momentum, and when they have the momentum, they can't find the position.

Professor Claire Robinson thought she had the momentum in her research finding only to be pointed out by Poneke that her finding has no position to stand on (ie, faulty), hehe!!!!

By: wat dabney

wat dabney — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:03:05 +0000

Fancy electing someone who knows about global finance, when there was a grubby local rent-seeker available! Pure madness.

By: Harriet

Harriet — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:00:17 +0000

If campaigning is all comeing down to ‘attractiveness’ then Labour -or anyone else for that matter- won’t ever select a gay male or gay female as leader as they would only get 2% of the vote, and maybe the other 2% from the opposite sex from the gay sex crowd – probably out of sympany!

By: RRM

RRM — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:56:16 +0000

I still can’t believe New Zealand re-elected a junk bond dealer in the middle of a global financial crisis.

I know!!!!!

I can’t believe New Zealand rejected a rudderless c-list clique of former trade union organisers who couldn’t even roughly cost their main flagship policies, in the middle of a global financial crisis…

By: tristanb

tristanb — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:56:04 +0000

The analysis would be better looking at centre-right v centre-left.

So that would be National, but who’d you look at for centre-right?

By: scrubone

scrubone — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:51:23 +0000

Bob R: you’ve got it all wrong. Obama is brilliant and the media is if anything, downplaying it.

Also, Romney kills fluffy kittens for fun. But that didn’t come out in the campaign – why not?

By: thedavincimode

thedavincimode — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:51:10 +0000

I still can’t believe New Zealand re-elected a junk bond dealer in the middle of a global financial crisis.

What, instead of re-electing a party that stole taxpayer money and pissed the rest of it down a hole?