WHILE maintaining his lead among the presidential aspirants in surveys, Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s popularity has already “plateaued” and will likely slip further in the run-up to the 2010 polls, think tank The Issues and Advocacy Center said yesterday.“It’s a bubble and it will burst in time as the people see the real Noynoy. People are beginning to be more discerning, looking at credibility of the candidates as well,” director Ed Malay of the center said in a statement.
“The drop in the survey rating of Noynoy is understandable as the euphoria associated with the death and burial of the late President Cory Aquino has started to wear off,” he added.
The think tank asked 1,200 respondents, “Who would you vote for from among the list of 13 known presidential aspirants if elections were to be held today?”
Malay, who is also the spokesman of former President Fidel Ramos, said the survey has a ±2.8-percent margin of error and 95-percent confidence level.
Some 30 percent of the respondents went for Aquino and 23 percent for Senator Manuel Villar. Deposed President Joseph Estrada got 13 percent, while 11 percent went for Senator Francis Escudero.
“Of particular interest, however, is the prominence in which Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro crashed into the recent survey. Teodoro, in the 13-way sampling, posted a respectable 8 percent for sixth place right behind the fast-slipping Vice President Noli de Castro who was at 9 percent,” Malay, a former reporter, said.
Source: http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideNation.htm?f=/2009/november/10/nation4.isx&d=/2009/november/10
If voter need a change; then vote for non tradpol...the trouble is, we are easily swayed by popularity or by survey report. One should be descerning enough. We dont know who are behind these surveys..2,000 voters surveyed to influence the millions of voter? I had a notion that this survey is meant to create a bandwagon effect to favor a candidate.
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