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There are two key things Americans learned from the unexpected victory of Donald Trump in 2016: (1) traditional pre-election polling is no longer reliable and (2) Google search activity provides better insight into voter preferences than social media engagement. That these lessons were mainly learned in hindsight accounts for much of the shock everyone felt…
Back to business as usual after Elections 2019. Like the end of the Christmas season, it is a letdown to realise that all the festivities have come to an end. The question, is are all the “issues” brought to the fore over more than a year of election fever which ended this month relevant when…
Don’t believe any of the traditional “thought leaders” associated with the old (and utterly beaten) Liberal Party-led Opposition when they say that Filipinos are now subject to a rubber-stamp Congress thanks to how they voted in this year’s elections. The idea that there is “no real opposition” in Congress is a big lie that the…
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It is quite ironic that the biggest “crime” today’s Opposition accuse the incumbent government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte of is to invite the Chinese government to exert undue influence on the Philippines. The fact is that a key element of the Opposition — Filipino communists and their puppet organisations in the Philippines’ university campuses…
Practically all the issues that contribute to the intractable weakness of the Philippine nation are not one-administration outcomes. They all date back in one form or another to inherent qualities of Philippine society that evolved over several centuries. Indeed, it so happens that the circus of the moment — the brouhaha surrounding an ad by…
Apologists of singer Jim Paredes are in a state of profound confusion. As the scandal surrounding a private video of Paredes that somehow fell into the wrong hands and got shared all over social media unfolded, his supporters (mostly members of the current Opposition camp) went from first attempting to suppress discussion by making the…
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In the remaining few weeks in the lead up to this year’s elections, the most prominent Opposition coalition dubbed “Otso Diretso” have yet to make progress up the poll rankings into that fabled “Magic 12”. So far only two individuals have made it to that list — Bam Aquino (an Aquino, we are reminded) and…
If this year’s crop of candidates vying for seats in Congress know what is good for them, they should avoid the “issue” of the intervention in the Philippines being mounted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC has indicated a resolve to continue to pursue an investigation into allegations that the government of Philippine…
