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So How Am I Predicting the Proverbial To Fall Tomorrow (and Following the Counting of Special Votes)? I'm Glad You Asked...

Allowing for a reasonable 'margin of error', here's how I anticipate the various cookies to crumble... *NZ Labour: 47-48% 47.2 *NZ National: 32-34% 32.2 *Act NZ: 7.5-8.5% 8.2 *Green Party: 6.5-7.0% 6.4 *NZ First: 3.3-4.4% 3.8  All Others: 3.0-4.5% 2.2 All other things being quite equal, you understand...

"Oppositions Don't WIN elections; Governments Lose them": So Goes the 'Ageless Truism', But Not THIS NZ Inc General Election, No indeed! This Time It's the VERY CONVERSE: The Opposition of the Day Has (Already) Well and Truly LOST this Election, Whilst the Government of the Day has More than Handily WON it. Yes, You Heard it First Here...

"I Will NOT Pose for your camera/s, My/our faith is not for show": So - apparently - once said a poor Appalachian (or thereabouts) pastor at the conclusion of a funeral service out in the wilds of Pennsylvania to America's popular, one-time TV Show Host Phil Donahue...in remarks now forever after 'immortalized' in and by the well-respected radio evangelist Charles ('Chuck') Swindoll...and they are of no less relevance and vital import and bearing today, whether in the U S of A or here in lil ole God's Own/Godzone...

Though 'it ain't necessarily so', as in so many things reported by today's self-anointed purveyors of truth and reality - who despite seemingly never-ending claims to 'the facts' whilst all other comers (and goers) are supposedly peddling fake news , and generous helpings thereof, themselves so often leave much to be desired insofar as really, truly giving viewers, readers and listeners 'the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth' is concerned, the 'real doss' so to speak - it is a tad concerning (and, what's more, 'worrying') when(ever) any  people in the public eye, let alone 'leaders' in the community (and other assorted 'movers and shakers' in society) use  their (supposed) 'faith' and/or religious pedigree as a kind of prop for public consumption...   And thus and so we had the spectacle of President Trump awhile ago, following the spontaneous eruption of protests and riots throughout the States...