Pakatan's main target in Cameron Highlands

This is what a Pakatan leader said,

PH is Catching Up with BN in Cameron Highlands

PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Harapan (PH) says it has narrowed the gap with Barisan Nasional (BN) a week into the campaign for the Cameron Highlands parliamentary by-election and that a victory is not beyond reach.

PH election director Wong Kah Woh said the coalition was the underdog at the start of the campaign but “now we are closing the gap”.

However, it is still too early to estimate PH’s chances of winning the polls, he said, adding that everything boils down to efforts to be put in by the coalition in the remaining days of this week.

“It is not impossible (for PH) to win. The possibility of winning is there,“ he told China Press in an interview published today.

Wong, who is DAP’s Ipoh Timur MP, noted that Cameron Highlands is a typical mixed constituency and PH needs to focus on the votes of all the four major communities – Malay, Chinese, Indian and orang asli.

“(But) Our main target now is to maintain the support of Chinese and Indians who make up the bulk of voter base,“ he said, taking cognisance that in the last general election, PH garnered only 10% of Malay votes and 10% of orang asli votes.

“We want to increase our votes (from all the ethnic groups). AS such in the last one week, we have mobilised a number of heavyweights such as DAP’s Lim Kit Siang, secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, deputy president Gobind Singh Deo and PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to meet voters.”

The by-election will see a four-way fight among PH, BN and two independent candidates. 

https://www.thesundaily.my/local/ph-says-it-is-catching-up-with-bn-in-cameron-highlands-IL409219

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PH election director Wong Kah Woh said the coalition was the underdog at the start of the campaign but “now we are closing the gap”.

Really?

That's weird.

How can Pakatan be the underdog after their victory of GE14?

Bear in mind that the BN guy who won the seat back then only obtained a majority of 597 votes, and that was judged due to him bribing people.

Surely Pakatan has the advantage to win this time.

I wonder why the Pakatan guy claimed his side was the underdog.

Was it because all indicators pointed to a Pakatan's defeat?

Well, if that's the case, then Pakatan better hope they are not going to lose by a lot.

But that cannot be, right?

Pakatan is so strong now that we were told that all the BN MPs are crossing over to them.

And it was also said that the people are so fed up and hate BN these days.


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“(But) Our main target now is to maintain the support of Chinese and Indians who make up the bulk of voter base,“ he said, taking cognisance that in the last general election, PH garnered only 10% of Malay votes and 10% of orang asli votes.

Ish....how can he said that Pakatan's main target is to maintain the support of Chinese and Indians.

That sounds a bit racist, okay.

Pakatan's candidate Manogaran (centre) arriving at the Sri Subramaniar Temple in Ringlet in conjunction with Thaipusam.

But, then again there was that Pakatan's billboards with just Indian and Chinese writings put up in Cameron Highlands.

Indians and Chinese made up about 43 per cent of voters there.

Well, guess they only need the liberals of Malays and Orang Asli to support Pakatan this time.

But it's still not good to say it openly like that, okay.

I wonder what my friends in Pribumi Bersatu have to say about this.

Amanah people I don't wonder too much. They just follow what their big brothers say.