Dyana-A Hottie On The Campaign Trail

Novice No More?

Voters in Teluk Intan may be slightly confused if they see a pretty young lass, wearing the DAP badge moving around on her hustle at the market places and shops in the Parliamentary constituency ofTeluk Intan.

Petite and pretty looking, she certainly will woo the hearts of young Middle-Malaysia.

As for the rest of the electorate, they usually fell into three discrete categories.

Assuming that they do not vote racially, which may be difficult in a rural-based demography, certainly uncertain in a suburban landscape and blatantly definitive in an urban area, let us see what are the chances for both candidates.

Let's Have a Fair Fight. No bullying, yeh?

Let us look at the doyen of politics-Dr. Mah.

He needs no introduction. A local boy, he has played his part in the earlier elections under BN until his loss in 2008 and 2013. He is a known quantity.

The people knows what he can do and what and why he cannot do. Voting him in will perhaps see some small village and urban projects being implemented. He may lend a helping ear but there is so little he can do given UMNO's stranglehold over the BN. Also Gerakan is a party which is in the throes of death.

Dyana on the other hand is a breath of fresh air. Her candidature representing the DAP is electrifying. She is one unknown quantity. She may be another pocket dynamite like Nurul Izzah or Marina Mahathir or even Ambiga.

The people have to choose on 31 May.

Poster Attraction for Dyana

My 5 sen analysis:

If the voters vote status quo as in 2013, then Dyana will slip in with a slight majority lower than her predecessor. This is because outstation voters will unlikely come back to cast their votes.

If the voters are fired up after all the BN inflation measures making the cost of living to rise unnecessarily, then expect more of BN's earlier voters to either vote for Dyana or not turn up for the election at all. Again, outstation voters will also not come back to vote for BN.

In the rural areas particularly the FELDA stations and oil palm plantations and the other remote agricultural backwaters, BN will most likely have the upper hand as development is required to bring these people up to economic speed.

Doing the Walk-about

The interesting category will be suburbia where the lower middle class resides. They no longer believe everything spewed by the mainstream media and are possibly suffering the worse of inflation in so many years. More of them in new housing schemes will out of gut feeling vote for Dyana.

As for the urban Chinese core and traditionally anti-government, is is quite definitely Dyana's turf.

Given the above projected scenario, Mah will theoretically win the votes in rural areas, at best; an uncertain support in suburbia and  will be the underdog in downtown Teluk Intan.

Dyana,on the other hand, will possibly trounced Mah generously in urban areas, beat him by a broad shoulder in thinking-feeling suburbia and may lose a little to Mah in the rural landscape.

A Tigress Roars!

On balance, everything being equal and with no late unnecessary hitches, I think Dyana will come in quite nicely though not superbly.

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