Quotes

“The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.”-Art Spander.

Were the people wrong in 2008 or were they wrong earlier on in 2004? If you look at it logically, the mistake were most likely made in 2004 because the events that occurred thereafter resulted in the drastic drop in confidence reflected in the 2008 result.

2. In 2004 Malaysia's 11th general elections BN were the most popular government in the history of the country with a 90.41% majority but by 2008 just within four years that majority dropped to 62.61% or the lowest in the history of the nation, second lowest being 65.97% in 1969.

3. Prior to 2004 I would say that the people’s confidence in the BN government were at their most optimistic therefore in order to build back this optimism we must look back to what transpired prior to 2004 and compare it to the following four years.