The Dominion Post Editorial today will not be what Helen wants to be reading.
In the red corner is a battle-hardened prime minister who has spent almost three decades in the parliamentary bearpit and possesses an encyclopaedic knowledge of policy.
In the blue corner, Mr Key is an untested newcomer who has only a passing acquaintance with Parliament's strange ways and suffers from the added disadvantage of having spent most of the 1990s overseas.
But on the evidence of yesterday it is Miss Clark who needs to lift her game to win this year's election, not Mr Key.
First blood John Key.
