DAP Secretary General, Lim Guan Eng, myself and Liew Chin-Tonglaunching Machap By-Elections Blog
And to answer questions from readers at my other education blog, as well as here, yes, I'm actively helping out in the party's campaign in Machap. ;) Did my very first political rally style speech last night in Mandarin as well - it was good to get it out of the way ;) Will try to get some more pictures up for the readers ;)
Back to the blog, it's set up by a DAPSY (well, DAP Socialist Youth, if you are not familiar) team to meet the following objectives...
- Despite the rural settings of the Machap constituency, Internet literacy cannot be underestimated. We have visited many households with Streamyx access, particularly if they have children or young adults in the house. Hence with an element of media censorship as well as the pure lack of space in the print media, the voters will get full access to our events, statements and pictures (more coming up!) on the website. In a small constituency like Machap, with less than 10,000 voters (and when we won less than 1,300 the last time round), every vote counts!
- It must not be forgotten that there are many voters who are currently working outside of the constituency, as near as Melaka city itself or as far as Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Singapore. It is estimated that nearly 25% of the voters are not living within the city. Hence our access to this block of voters who are likely to be Internet savvy, will be through the Internet.
- And finally, this by-election is a fight at two levels. Firstly, it's a fight for votes in Machap itself. But equally important, due to the national attention being paid on the by-elections, it is an excellent opportunity for the Party to express its views to all Malaysians throughout the country. A blog is certainly an excellent way for our views to be propagated.
Deputy Secretary General Ahmad Ton, Candidate Liou Chen Kuang,Lim Guan Eng, myself and Liew Chin-Tong launching
the special multi-lingual editions of the DAP Rockets.
In addition to the blog, the DAP machinery also launched probably it's most professional election 4-page newsletter campaign to date in 3 key languages - Bahasa Malaysia (Utusan Roket), Chinese (火箭快讯) and Tamil Rocket. Will it make a difference in rural Machap? We'll see.
Enjoy! for the next couple of days, we will continue to "upgrade" the contents of the blog to make things even more interesting for readers. Remember to advertise and promote the blog to all Malaysians, in particular, those voting in Melaka. ;)
5 comments:
A Machap blog is a good thing but given the short time frame, its unlikely to attract the traffic to have a strong impact.
My suggestion is for you to continue blogging on the election on this site not only to improve the Machap blog traffic but also add a different personal perpective to it that can connect with voters a Machap blog cannot.
In some ways Machap election electorate can provide interesting study.
I disagree with the view that rural means that voters would tend to vote BN because they are concern with bread-butter issue. I don't disagree with bread-butter issue importance but if their earnings are largely tied to commodity prices which are at all time high in all categories, BN impact can only be promise of infrastructure development which is losing some credibility with hikes in toll, power, water, broken promises in schools etc.
While national issue plays strongly to the 25% out-station voters, how many of them will actually come back to vote? I think the voting percentage in Machap is less in the lower 70 percentile only.
My feeling is that the real sweet spot in Machap is SME which many are involved. The question to ask them if THEIR NET PROFIT hAVE INCRASED? This current economic upswing is very skewed and too many SMEs are still struggling. The message to sent to them is that this is as good as the govt is going to do for them because they can't do better.. If they are happy yes reward the BN but don't vote BN if they think BN can do better because they can't.
Wake up all Machap voters, it's time to give a slap on the face of our sleepy, corrupt, hypocrite Prime Minister! Vote for DAP and dump the useless dog MCA!!!
Vote DAP for a better future, don't be a dumb again!! Wake up wake up!! Let us end the dirty regime of BN - Be End.
Sorry folks, Machap results shows that people are still sticking to BN, come what may.
Sigh...
Reply to Anon 10.15Am, BN won because of money politics and corruption. Nothing to be proud of! Until then, take care you scam of the society for supporting the dirty BN party.
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