Launch buttons prepped - the race for power in 2017 set to be anything but predictable
(WorldNews New Zealand)

1NEWS Jacinda Ardern gives Labour a big boost, and is neck and neck with Bill English as preferred PM. OPINION: `Bill droned on quite a bit, but I wasn`t sure if it was kosher to interrupt him`. That was the feedback from one of our undecided voters after we got three of them to sit down with Labour leader Jacinda Ardern and Prime Minister Bill English last week. And it`s a real problem for English. He`s smart, steady and proven and that`s a good thing - in fact, what National are banking on. but it`s Ardern`s charisma that has them worried in a campaign that`s already taken some hairpin turns that would test the most agile of politicians. If there`s anything the past four weeks...