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Noy’s Christmas Aldrin Cardona 12/20/2010

Monday, December 20, 2010

Noy’s Christmas

Aldrin Cardona 12/20/2010
Results of this mid-year’s presidential polls have given Filipinos much optimism, there seems to be a carryover of their confidence as we head into a new year full of hope.

A Pulse Asia survey shows nine out of 10 Filipinos are greeting 2011 with much anticipation of a better life under the reform agenda of President Aquino, whose campaign promises seem to have lingered on the minds of his constituents.

They are willing to wait for Noynoy to make them happen, with only a few — just one in 20 feeling apprehensive, waiting the Aquino bubble to burst.

Aquino’s landslide victory, however, should translate to real changes, primarily in improving the economic lot of the people or, as Ana Maria Tabunda, Pulse Asia chief researcher, said, people’s optimism would decline if the economy did not improve.

New presidents normally enjoy great number in popularity surveys, but they quickly lose them as each of their days expires..... MORE

SourceThe Daily Tribune

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