PRESS STATEMENT
Office of Senator Mar Roxas
Suite 512 GSIS Bldg., Financial Center, Pasay City
Please refer to:
Ms. Jenny Bugarin
Tel. 832-82-80 /+63920-950-6140
February 3, 2010
AQUINO, ROXAS STILL THE PEOPLES’ CHOICE
PULSE ASIA, MST SURVEYS: NOY-MAR NO. 1!
Liberal Party standard bearers Senators Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino and Manuel “Mar” Roxas continue to be the peoples’ choice to become the next president and vice president of the country, latest poll surveys released today indicated.
Pre-election surveys conducted by the Pulse Asia and the Manila Standard Today for the month of January showed Aquino and Roxas have maintained their leads over their rivals for the presidential and vice presidential May 10 electoral races.
In the Pulse Asia survey of 1,800 respondents during the period January 22 to 26, Aquino was chosen by 37% of the voters, while 35% chose Nacionalista presidential bet Sen. Manuel Villar.
Former President Joseph Estrada came in third with 12%, followed by former Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro with 5%, religious leader Bro. Eddie Villanueva with 2% and Sen. Richard Gordon, 1%.
In the Pulse Asia vice presidential survey, frontrunner Mar Roxas crushed closest rival Sen. Loren Legarda with a 47% rating, or a staggering lead of 19% over Legarda’s 28%.
Also, Roxas beat Legarda in the MST polls conducted by pollster Pedro Laylo Jr. during the period January 20 to 27. Roxas was chosen by 43% of the 2,500 respondents while Legarda got a picking of only 29%, or a big difference of 14%.
In the said survey, Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay ranked third with a rating of 14%, followed by former MMDA chairman Bayani Fernando with 3% and actor Edu Manzano with 3%.
The pre-election surveys of the Pulse Asia and MST confirmed a similar survey conducted by the polling firm Social Weather Stations (SWS), which showed Roxas’ lead over Legarda ballooning to 21% if elections for the vice presidential race was held today.
In the SWS survey of 2,100 respondents conducted for the BusinessWorld during the period January 20 to 24, Roxas was picked by 49% of the voters while Legarda got a nominal 28%.
In third place was Binay with 16%, followed by Fernando and Manzano, who each got 2%.
Roxas has consistently been the peoples’ choice for the vice presidential race in pre-election surveys conducted by the country’s top polling companies. He has maintained a two-digit lead over his rival vice presidential contenders in all recent surveys, a strong indication of how voters would pick the country’s second highest elective official in this year’s national elections.
The Liberal Party, on the other hand, is confident Aquino will maintain his lead over Villar, saying the numbers would change significantly once the public learns the truth behind the P6.2-billion C5 extension road scandal.
LP campaign manager Florencio Abad said Villar’s rating shoot up purely due to his huge “war chest” which has enabled him to flood the broadcast media with his campaign ads, a far cry to the little air time that Aquino has been able to get due to limited financial resources.
Official figures show Villar outspent the LP bet 7 to 1 in TV advertisements from January 22 to 24, the period when all of the pre-election surveys were conducted.
This is a gimmick that private companies usually engage in to improve the ratings of their products in market research services, Abad said.
He added the LP will intensify Aquino’s television ads during the campaign period to “stabilize his lead.”
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Press statement of former President Joseph Estrada:
“There is something amiss with the latest presidential surveys,” United Opposition spokesperson and campaign manager Ernesto Maceda said today, after receiving news of the latest Pulse Asia survey where former President Joseph Estrada slid down to 12% from last month’s 19%.
“I cannot reconcile Erap’s low rankings with the crowds that come out to by the thousands to welcome him in every province that we visit,” Maceda said.
Maceda recalled that just last week, South Cotabato greeted former President Joseph Estrada with a 20,000 strong crowd that filled their track and field oval. “Just today,” Maceda said, “thousands again came out to welcome and pledge their support to President Erap at the Bgy. Botongan Gym in Estancia in Iloilo. The same with happened in the gym in Carles, in the 5th district of Iloilo, where people rode boats out of the islands they live in just to greet Erap. The surveys don’t seem to reconcile with the numbers of these crowds.”
Maceda attributed the drop to the lack of television and radio commercials of the former president compared to Senator Manny Villar, who rose the highest in the latest Pulse Asia survey. “Villar has really been flooding TV, radio, billboards, the internet, every avenue possible with ads, compared to all the other candidates, who have not been spending billions on advertising,” Maceda analyzed.
Nevertheless, Maceda remained firm that it is not good to peak at this point. “If you peak too early, you risk falling out of the race,” Maceda said. “That is also why we have been pacing ourselves, in accordance with our campaign program,” Maceda said.
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