And The Presidential Front Runner Is…
Pulse Asia just released the results of their polls from February 21 to March 8 and after days of number crunching, we are now ready to meet and greet the presumptive front runner for the 2010 Presidential Elections.
It’s Noli de Castro.
Oh yes. The suspiciously quiet and hardly visible Vice-President is the current front runner to replace Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in 2010. The former broadcaster was the choice of 21.5% of respondents in Pulse Asia’s survey. The people who were part of the poll were asked who they will vote for if the elections were held today. Though GMA’s running mate in 2004 had the best showing, personalities associated with the opposition were hot on his heels.
Loren Legarda, currently a senator after topping the 2007 polls, is not so far behind with 17.5%. It is worth noting that Legarda filed election cheating charges against de Castro after claiming to have been wrongly declared as the loser of the 2004 polls. The Commission on Elections ruled that de Castro won over Legarda by just over 800,000 votes. Legarda is the only active big-name politician who has run for the Vice-Presidency and Senate.
Senate newcomer Chiz Escudero is at robust 13.5% despite not expressing any willingness to run for the top post. Mar Roxas is definitely running in 2010, but he’ll have his work cut out for him - he barely crosses the double-digit mark at 10.5%. 2004 Presidential candidate Panfilo Lacson is at 9.5% while another 2010 hopeful Manny Villar is at 9.3%.
Personalities who are known allies of the current administration didn’t do so well. Bayani Fernando, Dick Gordon, Sonny Belmonte and Gilbert Teodoro weren’t even able to cough up 3% between the four of them.
Jinggoy Estrada is at 3.3%, the now-incarcerated Antonio Trillanes is at 3.0% while Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay is at 1.2%.
I guess this officially starts our regular helpings of surveys!
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I’m absolutely NOT going to vote for Noli de Castro.
Now will you favor a President who is head of state and a Premier who is head of government?
I’ll be of voting age by May 2010. Thanks for the memo of the could-be-candidates.
“Oh yes. The suspiciously quiet and hardly visible Vice-President is the current front runner to replace Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in 2010.”
what’s wrong with being quiet and hardly visible?
Dont you know how succesful he is at relocating squatters from railroad sites. Some may consider it as political suicide by evicting the poor from government owned lands but the man was able to do so without risking his ratings for 2010. I also laud him for taking the neutral side in the ongoing battle between the opposition and the administration, and not getting too emotional. I like him. He has a sense of delicadeza. He knows he will be the one to benefit from GMA’s ouster but never did he find it proper to takes sides. Kudos to the man! He may just be the type we need ion the future.
I don’t recall saying that being quiet was bad. It’s just weird, that’s all. Presidential wannabes usually hog the spotlight.
Good luck to your boy.
Good question. I think it’s impossible to be a head of state in the Philippines.
Hahaha. Who to vote for.
(Hmm. I guess I’ll be seeing you at PIDC?)
Yep, Miguel, quiet is good. Or maybe Mr De Castro simply, um, ran out of “sounds” talking in all those years as a popular newsman.
i won’t vote for de castro. i’ll go for mr palengke.
btw, benj, nice layout this time. de-clutterized hehe…and i think you’re that guy i saw on tv, square-off, few weeks ago. i forgot na what the topic was about.
Yup, that was me. and yes, this theme is more organized. hehe
Noli De Castro?
Seriously?
Yeah?
Shit.
why are people so pessimistic? hehe
were you optimistic with Eddie Gil in 2004?
if the elections were held today, i’ll vote for escudero