Most Filipinos would have relied on ‘conscience’ in May 13 vote–survey

Filipino voters would have relied on their “conscience” when they cast their ballots in the midterm elections Monday, according to an unofficial survey of INQUIRER.net.

Filipino voters would have relied on their “conscience” when they cast their ballots in the midterm elections Monday, according to an unofficial survey of INQUIRER.net.
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.

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.

While elated by the latest Pulse Asia survey that put her for the first time in the list of possible winners, Team PNoy senatorial bet Risa Hontiveros said she would take the survey results “with a grain of salt.”

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.

Reelectionist Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III is sounding the alarm over his supposedly suspicious “double-digit losses in Mindanao” in an unnamed survey.

Despite lagging behind in the Social Weather Station (SWS) surveys, Puerto Princesa City Mayor Edward Hagedorn is confident he can win a Senate seat through the support of local government officials.
Surveys conducted by the University of San Carlos (USC) in November 2012 and March this year revealed a neck-to-neck battle for the mayoralty between Mayor Michael Rama and Cebu south district Rep. Tomas Osmeña.

Team PNoy candidates may have the upper hand in the latest Social Weather Stations [SWS] survey but the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) has all the reason to celebrate as its bet Nancy Binay shot up to the 3rd t to 4th spot.

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declined to say whether there were politicians among their subscribers who pay in order to get access to certain unpublished data.

Even in Basilan, the churches are full. A Catholic prelate said this on Thursday as he and other bishops continued to debunk the Social Weather Station (SWS) survey showing that the number of Filipinos going to Church had gone done down by more than half in the last 20 years.
President Aquino’s net satisfaction rating rose in March, a reversal from last December’s double-digit dip, the latest survey by Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.

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.