I have flown back in time to vote. My wife, Kim, returns on May 4 from Indonesia where we have been serving as missionaries for the past three years. The next day we drive up all the way to Taiping to cast our precious votes. The following day on May 6, I turn 65 and wake up to a new Malaysia. It's the best birthday present I will ever get. My colleagues are less optimistic.

Johor is generally seen as the fireline state in the 13th general elections

Despite having to face mounting pressure from within his party, the incumbent Negeri Sembilan menteri besar Mohamad Hassan insists that he will continue to lead the state.

Will the Negeri Sembilan state administration change hands come May 5? From what we have seen so far, things should remain very much the same: Pakatan Rakyat will need more than just first-time voters' support, they must also try to improve their support base among non-Chinese voters in the state.

With too many voters and too little election officials, hundreds of Malaysian voters lived in the UK were not able to vote on April 28. They were forced to bring home the ballot papers and mail back their votes to a specified office or family member in Malaysia, so that their votes can be put into the ballot boxes on May 5!

If the poll is credible, it has then conveyed an important message, namely the 9% middle voters is going to be the final kingmaker of the 13th general election.

Regardless of whether the BN is going to stay in power or Pakatan Rakyat is going to make history in the 13th general election, the DAP will be a winner and the only threat now would be the issue of hudud laws.

Theoretically, Umno will be in an invincible position according to these data. However, Umno faces a great wave of change this time and if the people think that the BN, particularly Umno, has changed not enough, they would choose to support Pakatan Rakyat.

It depends on our understanding about the poll to conclude whether the poll is accurate.

Wong explained that there are 222 parliamentary seats in our country and regardless of BN's or Pakatan Rakyat's representatives, Muslims are the majority. If the country really becomes a theocratic Islamic country, these elected representatives would not go against the doctrine to restore the theocratic country into a secular country due to religious exigencies.