"The Yellows are so desperate now they will recourse to anything just to salvage their dying breed."
"The Yellows are so desperate now they will recourse to anything just to salvage their dying breed."
With the exception of 2016 losing presidential candidate Mar Roxas, it seems all other candidates of Liberal Party in the 2019 mid-term elections are headed for defeat.
This, if the results of the survey conducted by The Center is to be believed.
In its survey conducted from Nov. 12-18, 2018, culled from 1,200 respondents with a confidence level of 98 percent and a margin of error of +3.5 percent, The Center bared that four of the seven incumbent senators who are running for reelection in the next elections are certain of getting reelected if the elections are held today.
According to Ed Malay, Executive Director of The Center, the four shoo-in winners will most likely be joined in the Senate when the 18th Congress opens on July 23, 2019 by six other former Senators and most probably by a former Philippine National Police Director General and the former Chairman of the Metro Manila Development Authority.
In its list of senatorial aspirants who emerged as the most likely to make it to the winner’s circle if the elections were to be held today are: Grace Poe-Llamanzares who posted 61 percent and is in a statistical tie with Senator Cynthia Villar who registered 59.8 percent.
In third place is Former Senator and Taguig Rep. Pia Cayetano with 56 percent while Sen. Nancy Binay is in fourth with 49 percent. Former Senate President Koko Pimentel is fifth with 45 percent.
Tied in 6thto 7thplaces are former Senators Lito Lapid with 41.5 percent and Serge Osmeña with 40 percent. Another former Senator Jinggoy Estrada is in 8th with 36.8 percent and former Metro Manila Development Authority Chairman Francis Tolentino climbs up to ninth position with 31 percent, edging former PNP Director General Bato dela Rosa who is in a strong position in 10th place with 28 percent while Roxas is in a precarious 11thposition with 26.7 percent with Senator Sonny Angara rounding up the Magic 12 with 24 percent.
Former Senator Bong Revilla who is still languishing in jail is in 13th to 14thplace with 22.8 percent in a tie with Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos who posted 22.5 percent.
Former Special Assistant to the President Bong Go has steadily climbed up the rankings and is now in 15th to 16th place with 19 percent and is in a tie with Senator JV Ejercito with 18.7 percent.
The only other LP candidate who managed to get a relatively decent rating, albeit out of the winning circle is Senator Bam Aquino who registered 15 percent is locked in a tie at 17thto 18thplace with former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile with 14.8 percent.
This is pretty alarming for the Liberal Party which managed to lord it over in the senatorial race in 2010, 2013 and 2016 elections, thriving mainly on the politics of blame and hate – blame the past administration for people’s woes and egg the people to hate everything that is not yellow. And this strategy has been effective for the LP in all the past three senatorial elections although questions have been raised in the results of the 2016 senatorial derby following President Rodrigo Duterte’s overwhelming victory, prompting some sectors to accuse the LP of massive cheating.
And the LPs appear to be very much aware of their predicament as they try to use all possible venues to reinvigorate their strategy of blame and hate, even using the UAAP finals between Ateneo and the University of the Philippines.
Trying to use the issue to their advantage, LP and its supporters started flooding the social media with posts like, “The last time UP became UAAP champions, we ousted a dictator. Could Ateneo sacrifice this time?”
The post insinuates that since they have ousted Marcos when UP emerged champion in 1986, Ateneo could do the supreme sacrifice of losing to UP as it might end up in the ouster of another president, this time Duterte.
Hello! Check you facts please. The last time UP emerged champion, the country was plunged into darkness as the president then was Cory Aquino who junked the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant without setting up an alternative except to coddle an energy secretary whose business was selling power generators.
The Yellows are so desperate now they will recourse to anything just to salvage their dying breed. Unfortunately for them, they cannot prevent the inevitable. It would just be a mater of time before they are catapulted to oblivion.