Poll groups blindsided by amazing Grace run
By Lawrence de GuzmanTop survey groups acknowledged that they did not foresee Grace Poe occupying the No. 1 spot in the partial unofficial count of votes for senatorial candidates.
Top survey groups acknowledged that they did not foresee Grace Poe occupying the No. 1 spot in the partial unofficial count of votes for senatorial candidates.
Polling firms Social Weather Stations (SWS) and Pulse Asia denied claims by reelectionist Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV that “one of the Big Two polling firms” was “massaging” survey results “to benefit paying candidates,” and challenged the senator to identify the alleged operator who approached him.
Reelectionist Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV has accused one of the Big Two polling firms of “massaging” the results of its surveys to benefit paying candidates.
Survey firms have appealed to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Monday to defer the implementation of its resolution ordering them to disclose their subscribers.
Eleven candidates from Team Pnoy and five from the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) have a statistical chance of winning in the May 13 elections, according to the results of the latest survey conducted by Pulse Asia.
Team PNoy campaign manager Senator Franklin Drilon welcomes the resolution of the Commission on Elections requiring survey firms to reveal the political parties and other interested individuals who commission or subscribe to their reports.
Reveal the names of your subscribers or else. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday ordered private polling organizations to reveal the identities of the subscribers of their preelection surveys.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) ordered survey firms Tuesday to divulge their subscribers in order to find out their source of income.
Survey firms Pulse Asia and Social Weather Station (SWS) on Tuesday declined to say whether there were politicians among their subscribers who pay in order to get access to certain unpublished data.
Despite the inauspicious developments that bedeviled the government last month, its top officials still drew high trust and approval ratings, with Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile scoring the most improvement in his approval rating, according to Pulse Asia’s latest survey results.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday said pollsters are required to identify the financiers of their election surveys.
While criticized for his handling of the ongoing Sabah crisis, President Aquino continued to enjoy high approval ratings, the latest Pulse Asia survey showed.
Seven out of every 10 adult Filipinos approve of the performance of President Benigno Aquino III and Vice President Jejomar Binay and about the same number trust the country’s two top officials, the results of Pulse Asia’s latest survey show. The ratings were basically unchanged from what they were between January and February.
