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With his background and knowledge of finance, he is well qualified to look at the reserves and understand what the is reading.  Song would be a major rival.  George.......this one, can forget it lar.

It would be a contest among Tharman, TKL and Song.  George is likely to be the one who gets a single-digit vote.  

Tharman has the same "halo effect" as Jamus because he, like Jamu, was represented in some international body, and Singaporeans had been brought up on meritocracy principles, which means status and pang sai chuak.  This is also the reason why Tharman had one of the highest votes in the GE.