All the PAP won was an additional 145 votes - big deal!

[Confuseous]

It would take all the propagandizing efforts by the mainstream media to portray the Hougang by-election as anything less than a bloody nose for the People’s Action Party (PAP).

None of the factors that conventional wisdom would expect to favour the PAP helped them in the least: a very public resignation by the WP incumbent (Yaw Shin Leong), the last minute possibility that a WP veteran might split the vote (Dr Poh Lee Guan), and rumours of internal party fractures over race (Sajeev Kamalasanan).

On the PAP’s side, no effort was spared in the attempt to take Hougang back: free porridge, free legal clinics, free hearing aids and loving mainstream media coverage portraying Desmond Choo as every Hougang mother’s favourite son and an untiringly youthful sportsman.

After all of the above, plus overwhelmingly favourable coverage in the mainstream press, all the PAP won was an additional 145 votes.

- http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/toc-editorial-playing-dirty-doesnt-pay-hougang-be-2012/

 

[butoh6050]

probably from some FT turned new citizens

 

[streetsmart73]

hi there


1. aiyoh!
2. with the additional 145 thing.
3. choo train may even get extra bonus for doing so well.
4. daft sheep will never learn!
5. thank you, hougang.

 

[Sideswipe]

put the 145 votes into context, PAP really did quite badly in Hougang again. same like last GE.

 

[jacobsgoh]

put the 145 votes into context, PAP really did quite badly in Hougang again. same like last GE.

Very soon pap will get used to losing.

 

[butoh6050]

Look out for the spin in tomorrow's paper praising the increase in votes.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

it's a big deal !

why ?

shows that voters are still not waking up......................no progress made at all....................


WP should have won 70% of the votes to show any progress....................