Everyone knows that the politics of race can, has, and will impact on the mood and sentiment of voters heading to the polls. In a previous column, I provided a Māori view of the politics being deployed by Judith Collins and the National Party. Her campaign to have a debate that her party has controlled since its inception is a crass play in terms of the politics of fear and division based on identifying a victimised White majority versus a preferred Brown minority. Collins’ politics are clumsy, overt and crude. Many of her own see them for what they are. That