People love to feel safe. Many voters probably feel they have been kept safe from Covid by her lock downs.
Exactly right. Prior to Covid young Cindy wasn't doing very well in the polls. Her government had failed to deliver on virtually everything they'd promised prior to the 2017 election. As well, many women, the more intelligent ones at least, didn't particularly like her donning a hijab immediately after the Christchurch mosque shootings in some sort of attempt at unity with the small Muslim population here. It was in reality condoning the subjugation of women although obviously the PM didn't see it that way. Rampant virtual signalling that the stupid swallowed en masse.
Virtually, every single night on the news prior to the election, there was Cindy with her trademark hand flapping, telling everyone to wash their hands, download a tracing app and to wear a mask on public transport. She had huge amounts of exposure that the National party opposition never got to have. Ashley Bloomfield, the chief executive of the Ministry of Health and the country's Director-General of Health was always there with the latest statistics on Covid. However, he was nearly always the runner up in the limelight to the PM. I have noticed since last Saturday's election that our PM has been absent from the Covid reports and they've been done singularly by Bloomfield. Cindy has won so she doesn't need the exposure for now.
A fair percentage of the population think that Jacinda saved them from Covid. This fallacy of course is perpetuated by the MSM who are mostly young university indoctrinated socialists. Nonetheless, I've got to admire Jacinda's communication skills. Her communication degree has definitely helped her get people to see her point of view. Add to that Jacinda definitely has a very strong sense of empathy that people can plainly see and admire, particularly women.
We could have got worse. If Labour had needed the Green party to govern as in the previous election we'd be in for even more of a rough three year journey ahead of us. Also, the Act party won ten seats in parliament and they have a very pro gun policy and will be doing their best to stop any attempt by the Labour government to introduce hate speech laws and any illogical and unfair gun legislation.
