Rise of Grace Poe

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Problem is her alignment with the wrong crowd before. Will she have enough guts to go against Binay, Estrada and et al...?

But with the Philippine democracy now just a popularity contest... And only choice left is "the lesser evil" rather than the better leader.

LP's Erice: VP Binay, Grace Poe tie in commissioned presidential poll
March 20, 2015 10:12pm

Vice President Jejomar Binay and Senator Grace Poe were tied in a commissioned survey conducted earlier this month, with a Liberal Party official pointing out that Binay's ratings have been dropping.

In a report on GMA News' "24 Oras" aired Friday evening, Caloocan Rep. Edgar Erice, Liberal Party chairman for political affairs, said both Poe and Binay got ratings of 22 percent on the survey commissioned by the administration and conducted in the first week of March.

He said the public may have been impressed by how Poe presided over Senate hearings into the Jan. 25 Mamasapano clash.

Erice also said Vice President Binay, who has been implicated in alleged corruption in Makati City while he was mayor, has been losing ground in surveys.

"Consistently, bumababa yung survey ni VP Binay from a high of almost 50 to now na twenties na lang... So more than 50 percent yung ibinaba yung kanyang survey, so hanggang sa nakikilala siya ng mamamayang Pilipino, palagay ko ay bababa pa yan," Erice said.

Interior Secretary Mar Roxas' rating neither rose nor fell, Erice said, but didn't elaborate. Neither did he explain how the survey was conducted.

In any case, the Liberal Party official said, campaign season has yet to begin and Roxas, who is the party's probable presidential candidate, is focused on running the Department of the Interior and Local Government.

Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco, UNA interim president, did not react to the results of the administration's survey, but said Binay is focused on his duties as vice president.

According to a Pulse Asia survey released this week, 29 percent of respondents favored Binay while 14 percent said they would likely vote for Poe.

Roxas trailed behind with 4 percent of respondents saying they would vote for him.

The Liberal Party might announce its official standard bearer for the 2016 elections by the second quarter of this year, the report said. The administration party added it will pick its candidate based on integrity and ability and not survey numbers. — JDS, GMA News

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