2016 Presidential Election

[stickers07]

you can't blame the voters. how many percentage of our population in Class D & E? usually sila yung nabobola ng mga politician specially the Class E.

class D representing the "largest bulk" of voters. judging by the huge % voters, we can say that the “masa” population in our country is Class D. the poorest segment, Class E, also comprises another big chunk voters.

Who is to blame then? Yung politicians, i doubt. Unless voters cast the vote, politicians wouldn't be seated in power. The voters just never learn. And yes, the majority of the Class D and E are outnumbering the better votes of the other classes, and we all suffer because of this.

[kimbon]

The assumption is Binay loose since meron na cyang kaso, right. The moment Nigger loose, wala na cyang political power so a few will left to support him, Enrile may be but old already but i don't think Erap will. So what's left for him to do is hire expensive lawyers so he need's to bring out more of his nakaw. A seating president will not do another GMA to Erap deal, they saw what happened. Itong si Negro, ang solid supporters lang nito eh yung mga ilang squatters ng Makati. Outside Makati, sa kangkungan na ito dadamputin.

Binay can hire as many expensive lawyers as he wants. di mauubos ang XX billion nya. literally he can buy our judiciary, money talks... tingin mo kaya mas pulubi ba si napoles kay Binay?

[kimbon]

Who is to blame then? Yung politicians, i doubt. Unless voters cast the vote, politicians wouldn't be seated in power. The voters just never learn. And yes, the majority of the Class D and E are outnumbering the better votes of the other classes, and we all suffer because of this.

obviously the politicians are not to be blamed instead ang bobong voters.

[Ry_Tower]

Sabi nga ni Juan Tamad, kaya siya nangungurakot kasi yung taombayan eh hingi nang hingi din naman. Kapag hindi mo binigyan magagalit (esp. Class D &E), so nakaw ka dapat pera pamigay sa kanila.

Unless this cycle is broken, trapo system pa rin ang iiral. We need to have a majority middles class voters with better discernment come election time imho lang naman.

Kahit sino manalo as Pres. huwag lang talaga si Binay.

[Monseratto]

Poe top choice after Cebu debate -SWS mobile survey
Published March 24, 2016 11:42pm

Senator Grace Poe is the top choice among voters according to a mobile survey by Social Weather Stations that was conducted after the second leg of the PiliPinas Debates 2016 last Sunday.

The Bilang Pilipino-SWS Mobile Survey, conducted two days after the debate, showed 35 percent of respondents choosing Poe as their preferred presidential candidate.

Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte was at second place with 26 percent.

Vice President Jejomar Binay and former interior secretary Manuel "Mar" Roxas II shared the third spot with 18 percent and 17 percent, respectively.

Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, who opted out of the debate due to medical reasons, placed fifth with 2 percent.

One percent of the respondents were undecided.

Of the 1,200 validated voters chosen to be the survey's respondents, 806 or 67 percent responded in the March 22 survey.

The survey had error margins of ±3 percent for national percentages, and ±7 percent in Metro Manila, rest of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

Across geographical areas, Poe was the top choice among voters in Metro Manila (31 percent), rest of Luzon (43 percent) and Visayas (35 percent).

The senator, however, only had a four-point lead over Duterte in Metro Manila. She was also just five points ahead of Roxas in the Visayas.

Mindanao remains to be a Duterte (49 percent) stronghold where he had a commanding 24-point lead over Poe (25 percent), followed by Binay (12 percent), Roxas (12 percent) and Santiago (2 percent).

SWS said the survey was its second in a period of five days, from March 18 to 22, to enable the pollster to determine changes in voting preferences after the debate.

Poe was also the top pick of respondents prior to the debate at the University of the Philippines-Cebu, where candidates traded heated exchanges on issues like illegal drugs, corruption, climate change and track record.

The senator got 33 percent voter preference in the March 18 survey followed by Duterte with 24 percent. Binay came in third with 20 percent while Roxas and Santiago had 18 percent and 3 percent, respectively.

Using SWS sampling procedures, 1,200 registered voters were given mobile phones for Bilang Pilipino-SWS mobile surveys.

For each survey day, two to three questions are sent to these respondents. —Virgil Lopez/NB, GMA News

- See more at: Poe top choice after Cebu debate -SWS mobile survey | News | GMA News Online

[Flipo]

• Notable fumbles in debate recalled
TOWARD the last part of last Sunday’s presidential debate in Cebu City, Digong Duterte pitched a curve ball to Grace Poe. He asked what she would immediately do as President if roused up by a report that the Chinese have sunk two Coast Guard cutters in the Spratlys.

Poe went into circumlocution talking about defense arrangements, poor state of our military capability, et cetera, and then remarked that since she was asleep she would first wake up (joke time?).

But what would you do immediately, Duterte pressed. For a while, this viewer thought the Filipino-turned-American-turned-Filipino was going to say that she would pick up the hotline to the US embassy. (We assume she would have such a line installed if elected President).

Poe lost that one. And also that point of her saying that she did not sign the Senate committee report and recommendations on the billions in the coconut levy funds in the hands of one of her reported campaign financiers. Records show that, contrary to her claim, she did sign that document.

That hypothetical emergency in the Spratlys is no minor matter, especially for a President and commander-in-chief who is new on the job. The delicate situation out there could escalate any time considering the ongoing brinkmanship in the South China Sea.

The tiff with China is one of the hot issues awaiting the incoming President. Filipinos should consider the maturity, patriotism and leadership qualities of the candidates when they vote on May 9.

Duterte himself also fumbled when he failed, while answering a direct question during the rebuttal, to detail how he would make good his campaign promise to solve crime and corruption in three to six months upon becoming President.

There is widespread concern about Duterte’s method. In the context of his repeated boasts that he would not hesitate to kill criminals, either via execution vigilante style or using due process, we might just see a bloodbath. He must explain how he intends to execute this plan.

Recalling the tweets mentioned earlier, Duterte’s additional “P” to the 4Ps of Roxas could be “Pantawid sa kabilang buhay” as pointed out by tweeter Nordin Pumbaya*1abuazzam

[claRkEnt]

couple of months ago : WILL solve drugs, corruption and crime in 3-6 months
recently : WILL TRY to solve drugs, corruption and crime in 3-6 months

big difference between the statements then and now.

[shadow]

- See more at: Poe top choice after Cebu debate -SWS mobile survey | News | GMA News Online

Pfftt! Mobile survey lang... Wala ako kabilib-bilib Sa mga text survey or online survey.

Mas marami diyan sumali baka Hinde pa pwede mag vote, mga babad sa FB and online games.

[Flipo]

DUTERTE: The right man, the wrong job.

SANTIAGO: The right woman; the wrong decade.

ROXAS: The right man, the wrong PR.

POE: The right woman, the wrong country.

BINAY: Wrong. just... wrong

[CVT]

A lively discussion one and a half hours ago on this, by our uncles and aunts... Excuse me, I'm out of here....