Tag Archive | Politics
Death by Suffrage
Death by Suffrage I don’t know how or where to start. Writing long and winding articles have always been where I’m good at. I have also been believed to have the gift of expression — I find it easy to say (or write) exactly how I feel. But now I can’t seem to mince words [...]
Villar concedes to Aquino #eleksyon2010 #purplethumb
Nacionalista Party’s standard bearer Sen. Manny Villar has conceded to Liberal Party’s Noynoy Aquino in a press con he has called this 11AM at his family-owned StarMall mall in Alabang, Muntinlupa City. http://qik.com/swfs/qikPlayer5.swf http://qik.com/swfs/qikPlayer5.swf Latest official partial COMELEC count puts Aquino at 12,233,002 votes vs. Villar’s 4,329,215. Villar, whose vow to eradicate poverty owing to [...]
Search This Heart: A Voter's Prayer
Search This Heart: A Voter’s Prayer by: RJ Marmol http://qik.com/swfs/qikPlayer5.swf ~~~ As we look back on our troubled past and look ahead to the future laid before us, I, along with 50 million voters, come before You Lord and pray that You search this heart. Of feelings of doubt, cynicism and pessimism — search this heart. Of feelings of distrust, dissent [...]
Securing First 8 Copies of ERs: Safeguard Against Automated "Garci"
If we want to ensure credible election results, we must guard the printing and safekeeping of the first 8 copies of ERs (election returns) at the (clustered) precinct level prior to hooking-up the PCOS (Precinct Count Optical Scan) machine online. This was the suggestion made by former COMELEC Chairman Christian Monsod this morning when asked [...]
Just Because
Like most people in the blogosphere, particularly the political blogging community, I got this now extensively-blogged black propaganda against survey-leading presidentible Sen. Noynoy Aquino most probably about the same time as everyone else got theirs. And it didn’t even take beyond the first few sentences to see through another pathetic email campaign trying so hard [...]
Who's to blame for Villar's drop in surveys?
If you’ve been reading the news, I think you already know the answer. Or at least, you know that Manny Villar’s camp is taking the blame — owning up to their inability to aggressively protect their image by issuing strong counter statements to disprove the many allegations thrown at them. Villar himself said in a [...]
Is Your Blogging Self-serving?
Blogging and a slew of social media sites, it has been said, have somehow revolutionized the way we do politics. Some think that this ‘new media’ is slowly challenging, if not fast eclipsing the credibility, accuracy, relevance and timely news delivery of mainstream media. Photo by underminingme Some are even quick to conclude that the [...]
Consider the "Donkey Vote"
A refresher on “Swing” votes Benign0, the Webmaster of GetRealPhilippines.com, in a post exclusively written for Blogwatch.ph expressed his concern (he says he is neither undecided nor particularly fussed about who will win) over an underrated and underestimated group of voters known as the “undecideds” or the “swing voters”. *** Note that the term “swing” [...]
