10,000 to rally for polls reform on Nov 10

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by Chai

I have a feeling they are going to lose big time.

Hmm.. Hard to say. The Election Commission is hard at work now, shifting voters around and adding postal votes of non-existent army and police personnel to help them win.

Don't forget, it's first past the post. So, all they need to do is fiddle with the voters just enough to win a slight majority in each constituency. That is how they managed to get 90% of the seats in Parliament in the last election, even though they only won 65% of the votes.

I think they will lose quite a few seats, especially in Chinese-dominated constituencies. I won't be surprised if MCA ends up fielding their candidates in Malay-dominated areas. It's a 100% certainty that most right-thinking Chinese no longer support MCA.

UMNO can count on rural Malays to win them a simple majority. Unless they screw up and make them angry over bread and butter issues like a hike in petrol price, increase in toll charges, etc.

UMNO also has MIC to count on. No matter how corrupt Semi Value is, many Indians still support him. So, I think it will still be an uphill task for the Opposition. Not like they actually have a viable leader...

Anwar's the closest thing we have to a real Opposition leader, but he's tainted for once being at the helm and yet not acting out against the corruption and cronyism prevalent in the Mahathir administration. The same corruption and cronyism he is now against? Funny, isn't it?

With that said, a possibly corrupt (but repentant?) leader is better than an obviously corrupt AND useless leader at the helm...

[Dashken]

If they were to lose big time, then it's fair to say history will repeat itself. What not when they've been on top for the last 50 years? Suddenly you take it away? Gone..

[Reyne]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

I didn't make it for this one. But Dashken's sister and her bf went!

Hmm... a lil late, but we have some updates here...

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