Malay not united?

Malaysia Today

Umno admits that only 51% of the Malay voters voted for it in the 8 March 2008 general election.
That means 49% voted for Pakatan Rakyat.
Actually this is not that large a drop over the previous general elections. The Malays who voted for Umno this time around is not much different from the elections before that. So how can Umno say that the Malays are now not as united as before?

70% of the Chinese and 90% of the Indians would normally vote for the ruling party --

and Ibans, Kadazans, Dayaks, etc., gave 30 of the 31 Parliament seats in Sarawak and 24 of the 25 Parliament seats in Sabah to Barisan Nasional.

The last 8 March however, while the Malays more or less maintained their 50:50 status,
more than half the Chinese voters and more than 80% the Indian voters swung over to Pakatan Rakyat.

the Malays have NOT lost political power (there are 122 Malay Members of Parliament now, higher than before).

What used to be Malay-Malay (in both Umno and the opposition) and Chinese-Chinese (in MCA and Gerakan) and Indians-Indians (in MIC and PPP) is now Malay-Chinese-Indians in Pakatan Rakyat.