Congratulations to PAS candidate Mohd. Salleh Man for winning the by-election in Permatang Pasir yesterday with a majority of 4,551 people. Despite my forecast was way out as I didn’t expect a high turn out yesterday. But I’m very glad that people still decided to come out and vote despite of the weather. As UMNO probably need to go back to the drawing board and pretty much learn from their mistakes, they might need to use a different approach instead of continuing using race cards as it does not play any more significant role. And my best guess is that, maybe the people in Permatang Pasir had already long decided who they want to vote for long before the polling day, despite the claims of wind of change is blowing.
Reports from Malaysiakini stated that the younger generations were still behind PR in this by election. As a win is indeed needed for PR to strengthen the 3 coalition ties. No doubt they are currently still having problems with the canning issues, Michael Learns to Rock concert, as well as catching people selling or muslim drinking alcohol.
Never the less, I think for PR is that they are still new so a lot of disagreement and misunderstanding before this coalition can actually mature. Just like newly married couple, after they got married for the first few months everything seems to be perfect, and they then to forgive easily whenever one of them makes a mistake. But after few months of compromising, that I guess is when all hell break loose. Lol. Anyway, like all marriage counselor would advise the soon to be newly wed is to settle it ASAP and don’t drag it too long. As the longer the problem is there then the larger the crack will be. Anyway, it’s good that they decided to come up with a consensus agreement which I think is good, but I still believe there are some members in the group might not understand how this works.
Anyway, to BN you guys should probably need to start living the 1Malaysia slogan set by our beloved Prime Minister if you intend to gain confidence of the people. Don’t say one thing, but do another as now many people are no longer naive especially the younger generation. I believe that we the younger generation would love to see “People First, Performance Now” to be fulfilled. And if changes are required to be done, then just go ahead and do it even though it may hurt. Don’t take for granted that you will always stay in power, as the saying goes “Sepandai-pandai tupai melompat, akhirnya jatuh ke tanah juga”. Take these 7 by election as a lesson, and learn from it.
To PR members. You may have won the battle now, but the war still goes on. Remember what was the main reason that put you 3 coalition together, and what you are fighting for. You guys better walk the talk, as a lot of people are putting their hopes on you. Don’t always think that people will continue to vote for you, so you guys better start to work out your differences and put your pride aside. And we’ll see you in the next election.
With less than 24 hours left to go, the battle of Permatang Pasir is heating up. As both parties fight tooth and nail to ensure voters to vote for them, but one could actually wonder who will win. Ok before I go on with my prediction, lets look back at the previous results back in 2004 & 2008, PAS has won this seat with a majority of 679 (2004) & 5433 (2008). So in conclusion we could say that PAS will surely win this time round as this is basically their home court. No doubt that BN had probably decided to field someone with unknown excessive baggage, which really makes you wonder how in the world did they decide to get him in the first place. Anyway, that’s probably beside the point. As 
My best guess would be PAS will still retain Permatang Pasir by 1-2000k votes. As my main reason behind it is that, as you know that tomorrow is Tuesday and of course it’s a working day. I doubt that people will take leave just to go back and vote for another by election. Even though now is school holidays, they might have other plans to go somewhere else already. But because this is the fasting month, the voters might not want to take a long journey back or travel. As someone once told me that they prefer not to travel during the fasting month as they would tempt them to buka puasa even before the official time. Some more this is the first week, so they might have problems with adjusting which gives them the more reason why they shouldn’t travel. Plus, I think by now people are tired with by election already. So probably they’ll go back to their mentality stating that my 1 vote will probably wouldn’t count, and if I did went back it would end up as a spoil vote.
