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Just how reliable are senatorial surveys done in April?

Friday, April 23, 2010

I’m usually averse to political topics but I’ve been very keen on analyzing polls and surveys since I started blogging. I’m not exactly a math wiz but I enjoy the simple pleasures of arithmetic and number crunching. I wrote a piece on how April surveys tend to be not 100% failsafe when it comes to [...]

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Pulse Asia Surveys: Who Can Afford To Be Optimistic

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Running a campaign for a senatorial seat is not cheap. I’ve always wondered how people would willingly throw millions down the drain in the face of prospects that are almost nil. The only senatoriable who lost an election badly (out of the top 20) to ever make it to the winners’ circle in the past [...]

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The Good, The Bad And The Chiz-y (Atheista Meets Francis Escudero)

Monday, November 9, 2009

I think it’s quite easy to find Chiz Escudero as one of the most grandstanding-prone politicians on television. While he may have a way with words, he does come across as someone who could easily smooth talk his way into spewing out ideas that are generally agreeable but not necessarily concrete or helpful – pretty [...]

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Senator Manolo Quezon

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

For years now, Manuel Quezon III (more famously known as Manolo Quezon) has been dishing on point columns on various publications and putting the issues in a new perspective on his weekly talk-show-slash-lecture-program “The Explainer”. Manolo Quezon personifies what most Filipinos would like in a leader – level-headed, rational, responsive and passionate without the trappings [...]

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