Appreciate the post, Jonu. You have to take your hat off to National, they are good marketers. Hopeless at directing an entire country, but good at advertising themselves. They spend the money required during the election period, to buy the votes. Labour has had a bit of trouble lately, in getting enough cash together. When Helen Clark was in power, the funds flowed more freely, they had a good head fundraising person. Maybe, over time, the big funders realised that Labour was no longer treading the true neo-liberal path. We weren't going to reinstate Roger Douglas.
Anyway, in 2014 Labour had no chance, they were underfunded, and the public had already been sucked in by C-T, the National billboards and sympathetic media hounds. Labour activists like me still can't accept it, because we knew we had better policies for NZ, and we were keen to see them working.
Meanwhile, the GFC has left a bit of a mess, and National isn't doing anything about it.
http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/73...fundamental-pr