OPINION: PAP grassroots misled PM Lee into thinking he had successfully swayed voters in Punggol East by-election


Yahoo! News Singapore, 20 Feb 2013
Is the People's Action Party hurtling down a slippery slope to a bigger humiliation at the next general election in 2016? Will this lead to a two-party political system, even an Opposition sweeping into power, further down the road?
Insiders say a press conference intended as a mop-up move after that speech was cancelled because grassroots feedback showed that the PM had swayed many voters.
How misplaced that feedback was. Not only did the PAP lose the constituency but polled only 43.7 percent of the votes against WP's 54.5. Full story