Will Najib's 'popularity' save BN in the polls?
YOURSAY 'Pak Lah, just prior to the 2008 general election, in a survey carried out by Merdeka Centre had him at a high 71 percent popularity rating.'
Survey detects dip in support for Najib
Changeagent:
44 percent of those surveyed believe that BN would defend Putrajaya versus only 30 percent who favour Pakatan Rakyat's chances.
In statistical terms, and at a margin of error of 2.5 percent, it means that BN's 44 percent +/- 2.5 percent cannot be overtaken by Pakatan's 30 percent +/- 2.5 percent.
In other words, if the numbers are credible at all, BN would win the next general elections by a landslide.
But the fact that PM Najib Razak and BN are still afraid to confirm the election dates prove conclusively that they themselves do not trust the Universiti Malaya survey results.
Kim Quek: The support level for BN at 42 percent is most likely exaggerated, as the ratio of races polled are disproportionate to the true ratio of the qualified electorate.
Respondents selected for the survey are Malay : Chinese : Indian = 68% : 25% : 7%, whereas the true ratio of the qualified electorate of the entire nation should be around 50% : 30% : 7%, the balance of 13 percent being natives of Sabah and Sarawak.
Hence, if the survey had adopted the correct ratio, BN's support level would have been found to be well below 40 percent, considering the fact that Chinese favour the opposition.
iKurry: Why are we still waiting for Najib to respond to a debate between him and DSAI (Anwar Ibrahim)?
The more Najib refuses to debate, the more it will indicate on his lack of guts and intellectual ability to take up the challenge.
It is common practice that the two top leaders of any viable party to become next government debate each other, for example, Australia, United States, United Kingdom, and some other nations.
The only excuse is that Najib said that it is not our Malaysian culture, which says a lot about him and his mentality.
Gerard Lourdesamy: The writing is on the wall for Najib. Save and except for divine intervention, which is unlikely, mass fraud and vote rigging on the scale of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, the Umno-BN monster will meet its Waterloo come GE13.
The goodies will be poured out in Budget 2013 using the rakyat's money but all the goodwill and credibility is lost. The people will take the money, thank the government for 55 years and then retire it permanently.
Umno-BN leaders are at liberty to retire to Australia, Kazakhstan, Argentina, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Cuba, etc, but please leave your ill-gotten wealth behind for us the poor rakyat.
Otherwise, we will hunt you down and ferret you out of your hiding holes and recover our money.
#27342##65#: Internationally, Najib has earned a reputation as a false democrat sharing the same club with Serbia's Slobadan Milosevic and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak.
At home, he is a celebrity who does not stick to his words. His songs, ‘Malaysia the World's Best Democracy' and ‘Rakyat Didahulukan' have all died.
His Umno warlords have ridiculed him as a general without soldiers. Born with a silver spoon, he is known to get everything without much effort.
He is shy, timid and deficient when challenged to a debate. He is never a fighter. He only wants the premiership to be given on a silver platter.
Boiling Mud: Given the outcome of this foggy Universiti Malaya Center for Democracy and Elections (UMCEDEL) survey, does it mean the taxpayers will have to fork out money for Najib to hire some foreign image-building spin doctors (preferably with no Jewish connection) to spruce up the image?
And even if he is immensely popular, would this be the only single force to fend off the changing winds and tides of change for the better, and would it by itself alone save a sinking leaky boat that carries too much baggage of corruption, brutality, squandering and plundering?
This is all a futile exercise. The real acid test is in the ballot box.
Ferdtan: Najib's fallen popularity poll to 61 percent is a warning sign that the end for BN is near. The performance of the BN in the previous GE12 was described as "disastrous".
That was in spite of his predecessor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, just prior to the 2008 general election, in a survey carried out by Merdeka Centre had him at a high 71 percent popularity rating.
So with Najib at a lower 61 percent, what will be the logical result of the looming general election - from disastrous to fatal?
YF: The survey results are expected. In fact, the rating should be worse.
And never before in the life of me would I ever see two of my favourite English newspapers, namely New Straits Times and the Star have now degraded themselves to garbage journalism by reporting lies on behalf of their master Umno-BN (for example, the recent NGOs threat claim and a recent Christian forum supporting the current administration).
Lies, lies and more lies from these once-esteemed papers. Which such filthy tactics why shouldn't the rakyat vote Umno-BN out?
You guys ask for it. You will get it. The very thing that Umno-BN fears will now be their downfall.
Headhunter: Najib, the rakyat cannot be bought by their own money. So all the recent boast by BN ministers that they can win with a bigger majority are just that, boast. Thank God, Malaysians are waking up fast.
Cantabrigian: I remember prior to the 2008 general election, every BN Hadhari supporter claimed that BN was going to win big again, like in 2004.
When the official results came out that night, Pak Lah (Abdullah) was dumbfounded and could not even utter a word at the BN press conference (and this was live on TV).
Despite all the hullabaloo by BN's media in 2008, Pakatan bulldozed them in five states (plus one federal territory). I can't wait to see that happen to Najib's 1Malaysia.
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