NZ POLITICS DAILY: September 4 2014

Today’s content
Dirty Politics
Derek Cheng (Herald): Rawshark files: The blogger and the politician
Chris Keall (NBR): Twitter suspends Whaledump — but hacker returns just hours later with new account, new allegations
Michael Fox, Andrea Vance and Matt Nippert (Stuff): Whaledump makes return to Twitter
Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Inquiry gets ZB input
No Right Turn: Collins, Whale, and Bain
No Right Turn: Let the game of whackawhale commence!
Michael Fox and Andrea Vance (Stuff): Whaledump Twitter account shut
David Fisher (Herald): Whaledump Twitter account suspended
Diana Wichtel (Listener): Double trouble (paywalled)
Jane Clifton (Listener): White knuckle ride (paywalled)
Listener: The rogue factor
RNZ: Greens call for Rich to step down
Gordon McLauchlan (Herald): Why are our politicians sleepwalking?
Kelvin Smythe (Networkonnet): The ministry of education and Whale Oil: an introduction
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB ): Key changes number after Whaledump revelation
Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Key's much needed reset button
Penny Hulse (Daily Blog): Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse on ‘Dirty Politics’
Doug Sellman (Press): Where to for values-driven politics?
Rosemary McLeod (Dominion Post): Hacking awful but plastic bananas worse
Socialist Aotearoa: Dirty Politics and Capital
Election debates
Claire Trevett (Herald): Winston woos with one-liners
Derek Cheng (Herald): Peters holds out on preferred PM, Craig seeks to use it against him
TV3: Things we learned about the minor parties
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): The Soap Box: Luigi in his element
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB):The unlikely bedfellows of MMP
Adam Bennett (Herald): Cunliffe forced to clarify detail on tax policy
Rob Salmond (Polity): "Ha ha - gotcha! Wait, what?"
Simon Wong (TV3): Cunliffe backtracks on capital gains tax claims
Brook Sabin (TV3): Key misfires in leaders debate zinger
TVNZ: Key keeps pressure on Cunliffe over capital gains tax
Campaign
Vernon Small (Stuff): Tax 'hit' makes National feel better
Vernon Small (Stuff): Capital gains tax a 'must do' for Labour
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Gotcha politics replaces dirty politics
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Winston smarter than all of us
Joshua Drummond (Waikato Times): All together now: We love John Key!
James Fyfe (TV3): No confidence vote: A voice for the disenfranchised?
Adam Bennett (Herald): Main parties pushing tax policies as vote-winners
The Ruminator: Thoughts on media coverage of the election #1
Pattrick Smellie (Listener): Mind the gap (paywalled)
Matthew Beveridge: David Cunliffe vs John Key with Heather du Plessis Allan
TV3: Key: National needs 'to work very hard' for win
Josh White (Newstalk ZB): Maori Party's image struggles
Michael Sergel (Newstalk ZB): Maori Party asked to pick side
Elton Smallman (Stuff): Party wants Maori trade expert role
Jamie Morton (Herald): Sykes brings years of battling social issues to election campaign
Jono Natusch (Occasionally Erudite): Internet Mana losing its mojo
Derek Cheng (Herald): First-timers up against Mark of experience
Amy Jackman (Dom Post): Two players vying for electorate seat
Stuff: Campaign Diary: Thursday, Sept 4
Stuff: Dotcom casts early vote
Rachel Morton (TV3): Kates and Kim go to the polling booth early
Elton Smallman (Stuff): Early voters quick with their tick
TV3: Polls open for overseas voters
RNZ: NZ First willing to talk to Greens
Brian Fallow (Herald): Economic data will drive voters
TVNZ: Labour's housing plan 'achievable' - Master Builders
Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): Tame Iti sets off on 300km cycle
Rachel Thomas (Waikato Times): Labour draws line in sand on Coromandel
University of Otago: Political parties to be questioned on needs of children
Polls
RNZ: Poll of Polls with Colin James
Jono Natusch (Occasionally Erudite): Poll of Polls update – 3 September 2014
Duncan Garner (RadioLive): Can Colin Craig get five percent? Key certainly wants him there.
Michael Fox (Stuff): Labour to keep Ikaroa-Rawhiti – poll
TV3: Problems for both sides in latest poll
TV3: Poll: Has Key weathered the Dirty Politics storm?
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why TV3′s new 3 News-Reid Research poll dont mean jack
No Right Turn: Sensationalising the status quo
Herald: National or Labour could form a Government – poll
TVNZ: Vote Compass: 56% want smaller role for Treaty
Kate Chapman (TVNZ): Vote Compass: Drinking age should be raised
Other
Jo Moir (Stuff): Parata's higher teacher figures don't add up
Josie Pagani (Herald): Let's hear parties' UN intentions