Leaders on the stump

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Claire Trevett writes in the NZ Herald about Key and Clark on the stump contrasting the two leaders.

Trevett writes:-

At the end of the first week Helen Clark said Mr Key’s campaign was “hermetically sealed” and he was staying out of reach of the public, while she and Labour were “out there taking the risks”.

Yesterday, she said he was having public meetings “stacked with National Party supporters”.

The Weekend Herald ran a rule over the leaders’ schedules and went on the road to ascertain whether Helen Clark was right – and to assess whether “public” encounters are genuine public meetings or restricted to supporters in a show for television cameras.

The results show Mr Key has increased his number of genuine public meetings since that first week. But his schedule in the first week was no less public than hers in terms of “risking” running into unfriendly voters.

Mr Key is also outstripping the PM on public walkabouts and has tended to enter enemy territory more than Helen Clark.

The graphic is from the print edition:-

NZ Herald 25 October 2007

Clark yet again is negative and despite what she claims Key is out and about meeting people.