"It's Covid, stupid"

 Controlling Covid rewards politically:-

1. Korea's centre-left Democratic party won the highest number of seats by any party since 1960. 
   
2. Ardern's Labour Party won a landslide in New Zealand. 
   
3. Approval ratings for Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen have reached her all-time high - after nearly five years in office. 
   
4. Australia's centre-right Coalition has recovered from the last bushfire season and is leading in the national polls again. 
   
5. On the contrary, in the wake of Covid outbreaks in foreign workers' quarters, Singapore's ruling PAP has been returned to office with its worst result since independence. 

The message could not be clearer: it's not so much about left or right, global or local, climate change, immigration, tax, abortion, or China. These are serious topics - but at this moment, in many voters' minds, they rank far, far lower than staying alive and having normal lives. 

And voters know if they are still living normally under the current lot's watch. As a cigar-loving, incumbent-defeating President of the United States could have said, 

"It's Covid, stupid."

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