It’s well known that politics isn’t a popular topic with the general population. This is demonstrated by the Top Kiwi Google searches of 2014 (Stuff).
Overall top New Zealand Google searches:
1. Fifa World Cup
2. Robin Williams
3. Commonwealth Games
4. Malaysia Airlines
5. iPhone 6
6. Jennifer Lawrence
7. Charlotte Dawson
8. Flappy Bird
9. Spark
10. Ebola
Top news item searches:
1. Malaysian Airlines crash
2. Cyclone Lusi
3. Scottish Independence
4. Alex from Target
5. Ukraine news
6. Robin Williams’ death
7. Ebola outbreak
8. Wellington earthquake
9. Cyclone Ita
10. Lunar eclipse
Top Kiwis searched:
1. Lorde
2. Aaron Smith
3. Rachel Smalley
4. Lisa Lewis
5. Mark Hunt
6. Joseph Parker
7. Benji Marshall
8. Chris Cairns
9. Mona Dotcom
10. Stephen Donald
No John Key. No Kim Dotcom. No David Cunliffe. No Judith Collins. No election. No dirty politics or Nicky Hager. No Whale Oil or Cameron Slater.
Winston Peters can only play a very narrow part of the media.
And no, Spark is not Bill English and Flappy Bird is not Metiria Turei
The closest to politics is Rachel Smalley who sometimes comments on politics, but it’s probably not politics that has made her an attractive search subject on Google.
Relative to general news, sport and celebrity puff politics is not very popular.
Your NZ 
Phil Wild
/ 18th December 2014It is quite funny really, all the self importance of all the politically based blogs and the chest beating inflated egos of contributors and commenters – all the self important wailing of the Beltway print, radio and TV media and most of New Zealand do not actually give a toss. What’s Lorde doing, who’s winning the world Cup – now that is what is really important.
kiwi_guy
/ 18th December 2014Should internet search engines and social media be used as an indicator of the “general population”? Or is more a reflection of the brain farts of youtube cat videos and narcissistic selfies, celebrity worshipping, fame obsessed, twitbook muppets?
Mike C
/ 18th December 2014LOL. This post has made my day 🙂
UglyTruth
/ 18th December 2014Seems that it’s only the internet savvy kiwis that aren’t interested in politics. Maybe it’s different for the luddites. 😉
Zedd
/ 18th December 2014Methinks politics to many is, election time only………
Zedd
/ 18th December 2014PS then again about a third of adult kiwis… don’t even think that !
kiwi_guy
/ 18th December 2014Yet my experience is most people definitely have strong opinions on everything from taxes, education, welfare, immigration. Usually completely one eyed of course, but still they have strong political opinions.
r1016132nzblogger
/ 18th December 2014The best I can do on such a short time frame
http://r1016132.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/the-great-game-ww3-on-the-xmas-wishlist-of-some/
Call your mates!!!
r1016132nzblogger
/ 19th December 2014http://r1016132.wordpress.com/2014/12/19/treason-crimes-act-1961-section-73/
Interesting enough???