Post-by-election pontifications...

As expected, there's a deluge of post-by-election analyses. I thought that by Chua Mui Hoong, "It's the politics that PAP must work on to win support", was arguably the most perceptive. One can imagine it as the kind of argument the PAP is making behind closed doors:

  I thought this letter to ST's Forum was pretty spot-on too:

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Fence-sitters' Effect?

Finally, I have one poser: What if the result was actually because many fence-sitting voters had cast their ballot for the WP, not because they would do so regardless, but because they were so sure others were voting for the PAP and so it was "safe" to vote WP? I guess we will not know. But Singapore politics will have changed if there is now a large group of fence-sitters come GE2016.