An election is lost.. but life with teh tarik is still the winner..

When we are too extreme with something, there are bound to be tensions here and there. As a result it snaps when it hardens. That happens to Permatang Pauh by-election where we see two fighting faction who deploy strategy differently. As for UMNO or rather BN, the tactics used are extreme at its best where the scenario is charged to a boiling point . We are living in a changing world with change norms and values. But some traditions die hard. In a multiracial country like Malaysia, religion should not be used as a tactical device in winning an election. It is a topic with potentials of high-voltage effect. As a result, it creates unnecessarily a high-voltage situations among the voters and the least the voters want is to put them on the spot, to accept without having a chance to know the truth. They don't like that. So cherishing a relax Malaysian mind and life style (nasi lemak and teh tarik), they vote for the PKR who gives them only a minor, basic, and relevant national issue to worry and not indulging in a high-voltage local tensions and high-noon school drama as BN did. As an analogy, the local does not want a hurricanne Gustav! It scares them. So in short, BN has deployed a wrong strategy of which the combination results in a lost election. Can this line of thinking be applied to the coming of USA elections? The line of thinking says that the candidate that wrongly charge an issue would find them a loser. Just watch!