Walk-abouts and Meeting the Voters

Except for the big events that involves the Prime Minister, most meet the people sessions are segmented in nature.Even those mega meet the people sessions are organised and contrived, at best. The preponderance of one race over another is too obvious to hide.

For huge gatherings featuring mammoth turn-outs, they have oftentimes marshaled the crowd be they, civil servants or students. What you see is not what you get.

So, do not be deceived by this kind of organised gathering.

The best indicative crowd is still the impromptu walk-abouts such as the ones Najib took in Petaling Street and Little India in Brickfields. Those are more authentic.

However, if you look at those by the PR, oftentimes, they are multi-racial and they are not organised. The people that go there are either staunch supporters, do so because of curiosity or are present just to listen and be amused by political theatricals.

So, when can we expect leaders in MCA and MIC or even UMNO to turun padang genuinely and really meet a multi-racial crowd instead of just meeting 'the converted' on racial lines?

Also this crowd must not be mass organised, paid in cash or kind and bused in.