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Gerry Brownlee isn’t buying the polls. At least, not yet. The 70-year-old has been a National MP for three decades (since 1996), held the Ilam seat for many years and in post-quake Canterbury was the powerful Earthquake Recovery Minister. After losing the Ilam seat for the