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Andrew Dickens: Split voting and overhangs won't do us any good · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: There's been a concerted campaign by Don Brash and Nick
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  Speaker 1: Mowbray to get national voters to split their vote, to
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  Speaker 1: engineer an overhang, a move John Key has said would
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  Speaker 1: be the opposite of clever. And so in the weekend Herald,
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  Speaker 1: Don Brash went to press again to say why it's
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  Speaker 1: a good idea, the upshot being that national strength in
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  Speaker 1: the electorates could mean a loss of list seats, which
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  Speaker 1: affects several senior ministers, notably Nicola Willis. And in the
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  Speaker 1: piece on Saturday, he argued that national voters are smart
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  Speaker 1: enough to work out split voting for themselves and and
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  Speaker 1: they don't need John Key telling them how to vote.
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  Speaker 1: The irony is that Mr. Brash and Mr. Mowbray are
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  Speaker 1: also telling people how to vote. Mr. Brash believes it's
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  Speaker 1: the only way for National to save a centre-right coalition,
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  Speaker 1: but there is another way. Be more popular, National in particular.
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  Speaker 1: The other disconnect is that many on the right, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: many in New Zealand, already believe New Zealand has too
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  Speaker 1: many MPs. And here's Mr. Brash and Mr. Mowbray wanting
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  Speaker 1: even more. If there was an overhang, it could get
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  Speaker 1: as high as 124 MPs, and we're paying for these people.
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  Speaker 1: And the other irony is that many on the right
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  Speaker 1: can't stand it when Helen Clark-Buckson, with her tuppence, And
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  Speaker 1: yet here is a former leader of National and ACT
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  Speaker 1: doing exactly the same at the age of 85. What
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  Speaker 1: source for the goose, Mr. Brash, is also source for
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  Speaker 1: the gander? And I would prefer Mr. Brash to zip it, sweetie.
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