This by-election is becoming more important because of its significance as to the latest voters' sentiments for or against BN.
Johore is BN's stronghold, so a victory for Normala will be a good sign for Pakatan Rakyat. Besides the 'shaking hands' issue, PAS's woman candidate will test the local voters' acceptance of PAS as a party as well as its female candidate. So far, Normala seems well received, judging from comments in the internet. She has even started her own blogsite which seems well designed and making use of all the social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
PAS is gaining acceptance by non-Muslims, despite what was being portrayed in the mainstream media. As an example, there was a tale about a certain election centre in Perak at a general election. When the ballots were being counted, almost all the non-Muslims (mainly Chinese) voted PAS!
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