GMS complains even when PAP don't hold rally!
Goh Meng Seng
Why PAP didn't have any rally on Sunday, the golden weekend for campaigning?
From the media perspective, this will allow the media to talk only all about opposition rallies and sure enough, the rallies were full for WP as well as SDP.
The media and internet went overdrive to paint "rosy picture" of "sure win" or "good fight" and possibility of PAP losing EC, MP as well as HBT for SDP. What will be the impact?
When there is such a "WOW" effect, the conservative voters will not want to vote for opposition parties any more as they do not want to "change govt overnight". This planted the seed of FEAR in the middle ground voters.
It is no coincidence that PM's lunch time rally on Tues was all about "the need of strong govt" when there is "terrorism, economic crisis looming and unfriendly neighbour" etc. This enhanced the FEAR in middle ground voters.
Then right before polling day, DBS came up with the gloomy report of pending economic crisis.
It is a well timed, planned and executed strategy and this explains why the huge disparity in the results between WP/SDP and other parties.
Playing the FEAR factor is well tested method but this time round, PAP's strategist has gone the extra mile of staging media impact as well as engineered the sequencing of events and messaging timing.
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