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I hope the opposition can successfully wield bread and butter issues against the government. In rural constituencies, and even in many urban working class areas, governance issues such as corruption don't resonate with voters. It is simple things like a better quality of life that matter:

http://www.infernalramblings.com/articles/Malaysian_Politics/261/

Let me borrow some word from howsy blog

Normally in developed countries, a by-election would be only fit for publicity in a small column of a local newspaper; not plastered all over the front pages of the national paper.

Another death, another by-election and another fracas.
Johnleemk, my agreement with your observation.
About 75% of the 22,000 residents in Machap are farmers and majority of them have oil palm and rubber holding while some earned a living by planting cash crops. And with crop prices at high levels, the farmers have nothing to complain. So the outcome of this by-election is predictable with the BN retaining it. All the dissatisfaction against the BN government is from the “urban poor” unable to find suitable work to “sustain the daily needs.
However this by-election has a distinctive significance in that it is the first involved in a Chinese majority seat since 2004 hence posing the BN a “test” to retain the seat and gave them a signal to the coming GE. More details at:
http://powerpresent.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-pics-scuffle-fighting-machap-by.html
and the Uproar created by DAP MP Kulasegaran in Parliament and also SIL Khairy Jamaluddin’s “spin” that this incident was an “attack on a BN leader. He heard it through the “palm & rubber trees” (we have no grapevine)