Friday
16Jan2009

A landslide victory for PAS in KT?

I’VE been debating with US-based political analyst Ong Kian Ming over the accuracy of elections forecasting since the 2004 general election.

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Wednesday
19Mar2008

You've got mail... from Pak Lah

To: Malaysian voters From: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Dear Fellow Malaysians, Thank you for voting Barisan Nasional back into power. It is with great honour that I will serve you for another term. I want to share with you what I plan to do in the next four or five years to fulfill your aspirations for the country.

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Thursday
13Mar2008

Conventions shattered

The 2008 General Elections was not just a watershed because of the unprecedented gains made the Opposition but also because it decimated so many conventions that have endured for so many decades. Here are some of them (in no particular order of importance).

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Thursday
13Mar2008

Can BN reinvent itself?

The 2008 general elections have left the Barisan Nasional coalition impotent in carrying through a number of key policy decisions and have inadvertently placed it between a rock and a hard place.

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Wednesday
12Mar2008

What role did New Media play in GE '08?

The Internet hardly figured in the 1999 General Elections although that was the year Malaysiakini was born. The Internet was supposed to make a difference in 2004, though it proved not to be the case. Did it make any significant impact in this year's breakthrough polls which saw the Opposition make unprecedented gains?

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