Latest SWS Survey on Presidentiables; Aquino and Villar Still Battle for Top Slot

Below is the latest survey conducted by SWS last December 2009 for presidential candidates in the 2010 national elections. The first survey was commissioned by Business World while the other one was sponsored by Rep. Ronaldo Zamora. Still leading in the survey is Senator Noynoy Aquino of the Liberal Party followed by Senator Manny Villar of the Nationalista Party. Still trailing on the third slot is Former President Erap Estrada.







For complete details of the survey, you can find it here: http://www.sws.org.ph/pr20100111b.htm

Advocacy Ads: Does It Help The Presidentiables?

Questions whether politicians who are having advocacy ads on television are violating election laws are still unanswered. Our election code permits appearances in mass media provided they are not directly campaigning for a particular position. They are after the words, vote for me, elect me, i campaign,,, and so on. Anyway, this is the Philippines, we have so many laws with so many loopholes.

In the recent survey, the presidentiables for the 2010 election seems to be well prepared to take all the strategies just to be noticed by the public regardless of the cost involved.



If you want to know how these presidentiables spend money for their advocacy ads (or campaign ads if we can say that). These are the numbers:

Mar Roxas - 140 million
Manny Villar - 90 million
Loren Legarda - 10 million

There are also some politicians who are spending a lot on tv ads like Mayor Jejomar Binay and Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro.

The question is, if they are spending a lot of money in the coming election, do you think they will not get it back when elected? We know that these people are not philanthropists.