The Johor polls is not really about Johor
Tomorrow's ballot has interesting federal stakes.
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I haven’t written on politics for a while. But with more than 2.7 million Johor voters heading to the polls tomorrow, why not?
The consensus is that Barisan Nasional (BN) will win with a supermajority.
Ong Kian Ming, the former DAP MP doing his psephology from the wilderness, floats 53 of 56 seats and a two-thirds smash.
Betting platform Polymarket gave BN roughly a 76% chance of taking the state, and on seats, sure, there’s some truth to that.
But a BN landslide?