• ooo_shiny@lemmy.nz
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    7 days ago

    You’d think that there ought to be a teal voter: conservative, both in terms of conserving economic resources and in terms of conserving our natural resources. But I guess there are not many big businesses lobbying for these types of policies, whereas the fossil fuel industry goes hard with lobbying.

    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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      6 days ago

      Yes. Me.

      And a lot of people I talk to, maybe it is my biased bubble. But there are a lot of people in the teal camp. I don’t have social media beyond Lemmy… So these are IRL people, far more than 5% in fact.

      I hope that when the vote is counted, teal voters will have had the courage to stand behind their values rather than be afraid of the “wasted vote”.

      If polling shoes a consistent above 5%; this is far less of a concern.