Will the pandemic, both a health and economic crisis, focus voters' minds on the challenges ahead, as the PAP would like? Or will the pain that is being felt turn the mood sour and be reflected in the outcome on Polling Day? Analysts say the reservoir of public goodwill is still full as the country heads to the polls. - ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): "It's the economy, stupid." Election guru James Carville had the phrase pasted on his campaign office walls in 1992. It powered his client Bill Clinton to the White House as a recession derailed incumbent George Bush's re-election bid.
What was true then -- that most people of voting age care deeply about their finances -- could be even more salient now, amid the worst global recession in recent memory due to Covid-19.
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