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By KRIS BAYOS, RAYMUND ANTONIO
March 8, 2010, 4:04pm
The camp of Senator Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III said the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has no reason not to exclude the embattled Vetallano Acosta from the official roster of presidential candidates after the Liberal Party [...]
Transcript of Annabelle Rama’s interview on Showbiz Central regarding Ruffa Gutierrez’s walk out from The Buzz:
kaya ko pinull-out si ruffa sa the buzz, unang una… pambabara ni Kris sa kanya hindi ko na ma-take…ako pia, ina, nagdurugo ang puso ko kapag nakikita ko si Ruffa na sa bahay umiiyak. Ilang beses na iyang umuwi sa bahay na umiiyak, ang sabi binabara ako ni Kris. Sabi ko nga, bakit ka hindi lumalaban sa Kris Aquino na iyan. Kasi baka manalo kapatid niya, ang yabang yabang na niya… Eh what more kung manalo si Noynoy, eh di buong showbiz aapihin niya? Hindi naman tama Pia iyong ganyan.
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.”
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.
SWS survey says that Manny Villar is gaining on Noynoy Aquino but at a slower pace and this momentum may be further dampened by the C-5 controversy.
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