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Neither of them has a chance of winning. I know it, you know it, the kopi uncle knows it, the 4D auntie knows it. The candidates know it too, but they run anyway. They’re not after the seat, but something else. To hazard a speculative guess, it’s publicity. DL is now much better known than he was a mere month ago, and KJ finally gets the media attention he always wanted.
The cost of the BE at about $30K – running up to $50K with deposit loss – is not a bad investment for the media profile. Sure, the news cycle will move on. Yet $50K to be included in the priority coverage for a week is not a bad deal at all. In the case of DL, his relatively sudden appearance as the SDA candidate suggests that he may have been the one to propose this strategy to the SDA to begin with. I doubt that mini-coalition can revive its flagging fortunes by hitching to a losing candidate, just as I doubt KJ is capable of exploiting his temporary prominence; that is to say, I doubt the soundness of their strategy but not their motivation for trying something (anything).
- http://piaroh.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/loco/
The cost of the BE at about $30K – running up to $50K with deposit loss – is not a bad investment for the media profile. Sure, the news cycle will move on. Yet $50K to be included in the priority coverage for a week is not a bad deal at all. In the case of DL, his relatively sudden appearance as the SDA candidate suggests that he may have been the one to propose this strategy to the SDA to begin with. I doubt that mini-coalition can revive its flagging fortunes by hitching to a losing candidate, just as I doubt KJ is capable of exploiting his temporary prominence; that is to say, I doubt the soundness of their strategy but not their motivation for trying something (anything).
- http://piaroh.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/loco/
