Don’t count your eggs yet EDITORIAL 05/02/2010

Don’t count your eggs yet

EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 05/02/2010 Liberal Party presidential bet Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino seems cocksure of a landslide victory in the elections a week from now as the LP extrapolated, based on the last Pulse Asia survey, showing him having a 39 percent preference to lead rivals Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) standard bearer Joseph Estrada and Nacionalista Party (NP) candidate Manuel Villar Jr., who were tied with a 20 percent preference. The LP in a press statement after the survey was publicized, estimated that Noynoy would clinch the presidency with a lead of something like eight million votes from his closest rival. Noynoy may have picked up on the results of the surveys to also declare to the world through a foreign media interview that the only way he will lose the elections is if he is cheated and that he will lead another people power revolt if that happens. The survey results of the two pollsters, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) and Pulse Asia, while appearing always tilted toward favoring Aquino and showing a solid and unassailable base remain a mere estimate, a guesswork and a highly paid one, based on not more than 3,000 individuals at most.... MORE   Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100502com1.html

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