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Spin doctors rearing their ugly head again. 1250 peoples, are they diversified based on race ?
The Star stated - recent survey ... but it is July to Aug (is it recent survey ?) OMG ... Where are we heading .. BTW if majority of people satisfied with the Govt .. then why not dissolve Parliment and call for polls ?

Jeff,
Thanks for the report. Can I suggest this. Prepare a similar survey form, post it here and let us download to physically conduct our own survey in our area, and then submit to you the completed survey forms for computation and report back the results.

And yet on page 12 of today's theSun we read:

Eight-year-old voter on electoral rolls

A voter who is just eight years old? This is exactly... found out after checking the latest electoral rolls and she believed the 'surprise find' is just the tip of the iceberg.

The sample field of 1,250 urbanites can be excused for not knowing the present government is more sophisticated in this type of expertise than those others in the region like Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia.

But TNS should have counterchecked the findings by doing some investigating of the electoral rolls too before publishing in which case one asks who commissioned this commercial survey.

In the coming months the great game of redelineation of constituencies will begin all over again. Where it's strategic, BN will do so to maximize their winning chances; how can this be fair when other parties don't have access to the same database, or the media to the people?

Imagine a line drawn right down the master bedroom conuptial bed so that the husband has to vote in one station while the wife in another constituency.

hahaha

I think the survey more or less captured the general Malaysian mentality.

I think the results would have been "better" for the Barisan Nasional if the survey had included respondents in rural areas, but as it stands, there's still much to crow about if I were the PM.

As some people have argued all this while, Malaysians really do deserve the government they have.

Whatevere the result of this survey, there is always criticism from both side depend whether the result suit their expectation or not.

I am surprise most people failed to learn the dirty trick of modern democracy : Gerrymandering

People can keep feeling goods as long as the disaster miss them.

Mind my language... it is all f***ing bullshit! Everyone knows it is.

The problem with our society is the lack of education and the problem of hearsay rumor mongering.

Opinion leaders who are pro government will lead their followers into thinking that our electoral systems are fine as compared to other 3rd world developing country.

We constantly compare ourselves selectively with nations that are less developed when it comes to civil society, race, religion, socio-political-economical situations and education issues.

Then we try to be in the league of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, OxBridge when we would want to brag on something like the previous THES rankings.

[ DELETED ]'s spin doctors should be ashame of themselves kowtowing to their political masters without ever thinking about their integrity as first a respected human being, the fear of God, and their image before men. They would rather prostitute themselves, tell half truths and spin stories which are half true! My God, what has this world come to, especially when we are constantly emphasizing on religious and moral values. The morality of our nation's leaders and its people can be judge on the hypocritic scale for content and situation selectiveness.

Ever wonder how will our children and great-great grand children will be like? I indeed fear for their future.

UMNO and the whole BN should be taken down! I am all for the overthrowing of the present day government in the next elections!

For those who doubt the findings, I think it would be good to consider that TNS and Gallup are reputable international organizations that have a wealth of experience conducting these sort of surveys the world over.

And this is not a 50-50 situation. The results are largely in favour of the government:

* 74% of Malaysians feel that elections in the country are free and fair

* 69% feel that the people are well-represented by the government

Those numbers are the highest in the region.

For comparison, 68% of Singaporeans say their elections are free and fair but only 47% say Singapore is governed by the will of the people.

That shows there is wide-scale dis-satisfaction with the way the government is running Singapore.

But over here, despite all the complaints we hear, see and read, about 7 out of 10 urban peninsular Malaysians say the government is doing OK.

And like I said, that doesn't even take into account the largely pro-establishment sentiments of rural Malaysians.

This provides ammo for the likes of Zam and Nazri, who have always argued that the vast majority are fine, if not totally happy, with the way things are, and only a small group of people are making all the noise.

A Chinese official on CCTV once said that democracy is a process and not an event. I think that’s a very valid insight that contextualizes each country’s progress given its unique challenges and aspirations. Once size may not fit all.

I hate to be disjunctive and start sentences with a ‘but’ or ‘however’. Anyway here goes. If it is a process, can we say that the events of the BERSIH and HINDRAF rallies were not just events but literally watershed events with water cannons assailing protestors who were for a long time bearing and longsuffering the undercurrents of discontent? If so, has democracy as a process and its institutions as structures failed to manage the conflict by listening? Has the mainstream media failed by not scanning, alerting or reporting on these undercurrents as a platform to accurately report and then positively mediate?

This latest TNS-Gallup poll results will give the Government plenty of folders to shout about and the “I told you so” stories. A sample size of 1250 from urban areas in the peninsula was quoted. No details of the respondents were given. Most of these surveys are probably done by recruited TNS Malaysia part-timers and we can hazard a guess that these respondents “face-to-face” might be the well fed and contented lunch-time crowd on the urban streets. The survey is over in a couple of minutes with yes/no answers and the results might tend to skew towards the yes. If a broader spectrum is selected, the percentage would not be that high.
There is perceived democracy and superficial fair election but most are unable to see through as mentioned by moo_t the behind the scene moves in transferring voters and all the gerrymandering to divide a geographic area into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.
Now what about freedom of speech? No Absolute freedom declared Nazri in a TV interview. . "Freedom has its limit, that is, when it affects other people's rights. More details
Go H E R E

with a name like TNS, i guess we hv been screwed again.

Ya, and Dr Lim Teck Ghee also a reputable person who worked with UN.

I guess...

"Whatevere the result of this survey, there is always criticism from both side depend whether the result suit their expectation or not."-2nd Class Malaysian

Groo, you just spot the ill fortunate TNS abbreviation ;)

In fact, any statistics can be spin to one side using carefully crafted question. It is not difficult to create question that label you as bloody murderer.

For example :
Do you support euthanasia for terminal illness and the family don't afford it?
select one answer
1. No
2. No. Unless I exhaust all the money
3. Yes.
4. Yes, to end the patient suffering
5. Yes, this will save the livelihood for the living and end the patient suffering.
6. Yes, save the money on the medical bill for those who need it (with national health policies in place)

And the result can be spinned by limited the choice, e.g. remove all the "gray area" answer on the above, remove 3,4,5. If you choose answer 2, voila, you get a "cold blood, uncaring" individual.

The survey result shows that the people deserve the government. In another word, 74% of the malaysians are dumb. With the brain drain and worsening education, I am afraid that the statistics are correct.

The survey result shows that the people deserve the government. In another word, 74% of the malaysians are dumb. With the brain drain and worsening education, I am afraid that the statistics are correct.

1250 people out of 24,821,286 citizens... that's exactly 0.005% of the population. how accurate do YOU think this survey is?

For UK, the statisfaction is 78% felt free and fair: 1000 people out of 60776238 (July 2003)citizens... that's exactly 0.0016% of the population. how accurate do YOU think this survey as well? They don't even met face to face, they use telephone! I presume this is not accurate for UK as well.

Regardless of whether this report is true or false, I personally feel that this survey carried out is meaningless. And the fact that people are even discussing about it is even more... well...

And what? We're comparing with countries like Myanmar
and Pakistan?! This is Malaysia la! COME ON LA...