As they were.
Status quo:
All presidential bets held on to their ratings from last week as there is no statistically significant movement in the numbers compared to last week’s survey by Pulse Asia, with a margin of error of plus or minus 1.5%, as follows:
Pulse Asia presidential survey commissioned by ABS-CBN Apr. 26-29, 4,000 respondents, margin of error of plus or minus 1.5% (source of figures: ABS-CBN News)
Duterte 33% (exactly the same as last week’s ratings)
Mar 22% (from last week’s 20%, statistically insignificant movement)
Grace 21% (from last week’s 22%, statistically insignificant movement)
Binay 17% (from last week’s 18%, statistically insignificant movement)
Undecided : About 4% (with a range of 2.5% to 5.5%)
In one week of full-blast propaganda blaring from all sides in all media, from the “anti-Duterte” practitioners and the Duterte defenders: The survey shows: people are holding fast to… whatever it is they are holding fast.
Ok, let me rephrase that: People are holding fast to whatever it is they believe in.
Are the “Undecided” enough in numbers to turn the tide? Their numbers are 4% with a high of 5.5%. These numbers will fragment four directions, but even in the statistically improbable event that they bunch up in one candidate below, would that be enough? — do the math.
(Hindi nga enough, pag-isipan mo yan, hwag matagal mag-isip, 120 hours na lang).
In the previous post published the other day, here was the closing : “xxx (T)he swing, if any, with less than one week, will adjust only within its level of political consciousness. (barring massive cheating). ”
Actually,
i just want to recite my Yeats
Amid the ongoing noise and haste
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
xxx
– William Butler Yeats
