COMMENT | In Johor, Harapan ran out of excuses

“Every election is determined by the people who show up.”

- Larry J Sabato (Pendulum Swing)

COMMENT | No doubt in the coming days, some folks are going to go over the granular data and attempt to spin the Umno/BN victory in Johor as pyrrhic and that situation for the opposition is really not that bad. The comfort would be cold if one were to go down that route.

Sorry Mohamad Sabu, but when BN got the popular vote in Johor, that’s the end of the story. The only people that matter are those who showed up.

Already the DAP’s Lim Kit Siang made the rather nonsensical pronouncement that another week of campaigning would have been a slap on the face for Najib Abdul Razak.

Good lord, another week of campaigning and I believe Najib would have another week to pinch a couple of more seats from the DAP.

When DAP’s Anthony Loke attempts to...