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Are Pulse Asia and SWS surveys objective?

In his book, The Opinion Makers, Moore makes the startling conclusion that pollsters “do not measure public opinion, they manufacture it.” He anchors this contention on the practice of polling firms to gloss over “voter indecision” during an election campaign. Moore notes:

Moore points out: “There is crisis in public-opinion polling today, a silent crisis that no one wants to talk about. The problem lies not in the declining response rates and increasing difficulty in obtaining representative sample, though these are issues the polling industry has to address. The problem lies, rather, in the refusal of media polls to tell the truth about those surveyed and about the larger electorate. Rather than tell us the essential facts about the public, they feed us a fairy-tale picture of a completely rational, all-knowing and fully engaged citizenry. They studiously avoid reporting on widespread public apathy, indecision and ignorance. The net result is conflicting poll results and a distortion of public opinion that challenges the credibility of the whole polling enterprise. Nowhere is this more often the case than in election polling.”

Villar loses 6 percent, Erap gainst 6 percent in latest survey

Not even Sen. Manuel Villar’s speech at the Senate claiming innocence with regard to the C-5 road extension controversy could avert the drop of 6 percentage points in his ratings in the latest Pulse Asia survey.

The results of the February 2010 Pre-election Survey for National Elective Positions conducted on Feb. 21-25 showed that support for Villar, the standard-bearer of the Nacionalista Party, had declined by 6 percentage points (or from 35 percent to 29 percent), and that his closest rival, Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III of the Liberal Party, would have won the presidency if the elections were held last month.

Juan Ponce Enrile confirms Villar’s bribe try on Gordon

Senator Juan Ponce Enrile to Senator Manny Villar: THE PRESIDENCY, THE FILIPINO PEOPLE, THE PHILIPPINES ARE NOT FOR SALE
Sen. Villar may have succeeded to a large extent in deploying the huge fortune he acquired, perhaps some by honest means, but definitely, a large part, by the immoral use of his political position, power and clout to advance his own business interests as borne out by the evidence in Senate Ethics case and, much earlier, by the shenanigans exposed on the Floor of the Lower House by Sen. Joker Arroyo,

But on May 10, he must be taught a hard and painful lesson by no less than the electorate. He must be unmasked and rejected as a fake leader in order for the nation to redeem itself. We must clearly send the strongest message to Senator Manuel “Manny” B. Villar, as Senator Richard J. Gordon has said, that THE PRESIDENCY OF THIS NATION, THE FILIPINO PEOPLE, AND THE PHILIPPINES ARE NOT FOR SALE.

Gordon also offered money to back out from 2010 polls

All though, being a laggard in a number of surveys, bribing Gordon to back out of the 2010 Presidential polls doesn’t seem to present an advantage to Villar.

Joseph “Erap” Estrada being bribed to back out of 2010 Presidential Race?

In an interview on DZBB, former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada claimed that he was receiving bribe offers in exchange for backing out of the 2010 Presidential elections.

In a tight race dominated by Senator Manny Villar and Senator Noynoy Aquino, it seems that the prospect of Erap Estrada backing out of the 2010 Philippine Presidential polls [...]