Sunday, May 07, 2006
GE 2006
hello i just spent my saturday night and sunday morning tuning in to the general elections results. it turned out to be quite interesting since this is the first time i bother to watch (because its a sizzling hot topic and the next elections i'm officially legal! but i never really wanted to read the overwhelming coverage in the papers) from the astonishing number of people who are so enthusiastic as to go down to the stadiums, to SDP head complaining about the lights being too bright "even blind can see" (i think he couldn't find anything better to say) and PAP candidate's interview which i could make mostly nothing of "it's important for them to get an education then they can have a family"
(WHAT?! hahaha) -this is what i caught
well, i'm sure there'll be much "
post-mortem"-as tjc likes to call the evaluation process after revelation of results, but is not an appropriate term. let me do my own little evaluation here which is partially studying for GP. votes do speak for themselves and the opposition is growing strong,especially the WP, which only goes to show that people are either totally supportive of the opposition or more against the ruling party. i believe they may not necessarily be voting FOR the opposition, but AGAINST pap. of course there are the number of spoilt votes too.
you don't want the pap, neither do you feel secure with opposition as most contested wards display a new line of opposition candidates whom you have never heard of or seen before.
1: spoil your vote by crossing in between or doodling all over
2: stay away from the centre from 8am-8pm
3:vote for oppo anyway only if you will never consider voting pap in.
for the PAP, not a very strong mandate if you look at percentages. given that all are a little over marginal, averaging 60+%, pap may publicly say that they are contented but deep down nah, who really would be contented with a b4 or b3 type of grade if in the past you have gotten distinctions the last time, and when you think you have worked hard? moreover, here are political veterans contesting newbies as young as 24, its like pitting a uni grad against a primary 1 student in a test but only doing marginally better. their enormous bubble has been deflated abit here, probably by the bolt of lightning. -pop-
