The Last Night

Its a frantic last night of campaigning in Taichung and it is fairly relentless.  Feels about every 10 mins a convey passes with blaring music and lots of drums.  Did I mention the fireworks? That also went on for about 2 hours earlier this evening.  Make no mistake - the election is less than 12 hours away.  So ... pop into the living room and turn on cable TV to see what the news are covering.   The partisan divide in Taiwan's media is more than plain to see.  Here are some stills from about 30 minutes ago as I flicked through all the cable news channels:

There are eight news channels which in my area are found from No. 50 - 58.  Of these eight channels, only two have run either news, talkshows or covered pan green party events and news.  The other six have covered pan-blue party events and news. That's 25% pan-green and 75% pan blue. 

The US Republican Party, even with Faux News behind them, could only dream of such overwhelming media bias in their favour.

And, with Hau and Lien Chan welling up on stage, do I sense some desperation from the KMT as they face losing Taipei and being taken oh so close even in Xinbei?  (Even Taichung's Hu might not sleep so well tonight which speaks volumes for how well the DPP's Su has run his campaign here).

Oh and here's my jiayo!s to Taipei City Council Election Candidate No.6 for Neihu and Nankang.