That is the “lowest common demoninator being the most popular with the peasants & riff-raff” syndrome producing that result.
So you must've voted overwhelmingly in favour of him then?!
Nope....I voted for one of the candidates from other political parties that he made extremely nasty sexist and racist comments about.
One of those candidates was Georgina Beyer (he made both sexist AND racist nasty comments about her).
The candidate I voted for was a Maori (standing for NZ First) who Paul Henry likewise made nasty racist comments about because he was a Maori. I wouldn't have even considered voting for that candidate until Paul Henry spouted his racist put-down at a public meeting. I wasn't at the meeting personally, but I heard all about it from people who were, and it was all over the local newspaper the following day. That would have been the 2002 general election.
The interesting thing is that local opinion polls commissioned by the Wairarapa Times-Age showed the Labour and National candidates (Georgina Beyer and Paul Henry respectively) to be neck-and-neck until that meeting (in Masterton Town Hall) where Paul Henry showed his TRUE racist and sexist self. After that, further opinion polls commissioned by the Wairarapa Times-Age showed support for the National candidate plummetting. I bet the Nats heirachy were totally pissed off with Paul Henry for that, but naturally they said nothing in public about it.
