The highly anticipated PULSE ASIA Presidential Preference October Survey is out and the results aren’t really surprising. Leading the pack is Liberal Party standard bearer Noynoy Aquino with a dominating 44%. Following Aquino is Nacionalista Party’s Senator Manny Villar at 19%, then Senator Chiz Escudero with 13%, and former President Joseph Estrada at 11%. Administration candidate Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro only managed to rate 2% in the survey. These numbers are pretty much consistent with the recent SWS Survey which also put Noynoy on top followed by Villar. The big discrepancy...

Former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada has confirmed several days ago that he was running for the Presidency in 2010. To make things more official, he recently said that he will be announcing his party’s slate on October 21. This includes his candidates for VP and Senators. Rumors have been circulating that Estrada has picked Makati Mayor Binay to be his running mate. For his Senators, Estrada shares that he wants to field the following: Senator Enrile, Senator Santiago, Senator Pimentel, Cong. Locsin, Cong. Marcos, Edu Manzano, Danilo Lim, and Grace Poe. It’s interesting...

A few days ago I wrote about politician branded relief goods. Rowie, one of my former teachers from the Ateneo, brought up a point that there are a lot of branded operations going on. She’s spot on since there are “TEAM (INSERT POLITICIAN’S NAME HERE)” all over the affected areas of the flood. The most organized though is former President Erap Estrada. A photo of an “Erap Relief Good Ticket” surfaced just a few minutes ago on Facebook. Caption: Ito ang tiket na hawak ng mga evacuee sa San Mateo, Rizal kanina para makakuha ng relief goods. No ticket, no relief...

This album was posted on Facebook by Gerald Magno. It basically has several movie posters but instead of the Hollywood stars an artist edited in and put in the pictures of the candidates in 2010. Really interesting and funny stuff! Hopefully these pictures will put a smile on your face. We definitely need light moments now more than ever. Here’s my personal favorite. First poster shows Noynoy Aquino and Mar Roxas in the Martin-Gary poster. Second is the Twilight poster but it now has Chiz and Loren. Next up we have former President Estrada being “dragged back to jail” by Senator...

Citing that there was no hope anymore for the opposition to field a single candidate in the upcoming 2010 elections, former President and convicted plunderer Erap Estrada announced in a press interview that he will be running for the Presidency once again. He further explains that he’s talked to almost all of the candidates already, namely Chiz, Noynoy, & Manny Villar. None of them are willing to give way. Erap also shared that his party will field a full slate, including a senatorial line-up that features: Senator Jinggoy Estrada, General Danilo Lim, Joey de Venecia III, Edu Manzano,...

ABS-CBN veteran broadcaster Ted Failon declined last night an invitation by former President Erap Estrada to run for Senator in the upcoming 2010 elections. In a press conference yesterday, Estrada said that he was going to formally announce his decision if he will run for President next month. During his speech, he also dropped several names of possible candidates that would be part of the Senate slate of his party. One of the names that came out was Ted Failon’s. In a news bit last night shown during TV Patrol, Ted Failon declined the offer of Estrada. In response, Estrada explains that...

It looks like the recent SWS survey wasn’t a fluke. The latest Pulse Asia report shows that Senator Manny Villar is still leading the race for the Presidency in 2010. 25% of the respondents said that they would vote for him for President. Following Senator Villar is former President Erap Estrada (19%), Vice President Noli De Castro (16%), Senator Chiz Escudero (12%), and Senator Mar Roxas (11%). According to the survey, respondents base their decision on who to vote for depending on the previous accomplishments and achievements. If this is the case, then Senator Villar is on-strat when it...

The latest SWS Survey commissioned by Senator and Presidential aspirant Manny Villar shows that the top three front runners are: Senator Manny Villar (22%), Former President Joseph Estrada (19%), and Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero (18%). It’s not surprising to see this because Senator Villar has really been pouring out massive amounts of resources in trying to build his name for the upcoming 2010 elections. He’s been doing television, radio, print, and online for almost 6 months straight now and I can only assume that his spending will intensify even more when the real...

It looks like El Shaddai leader Brother Mike Velarde isn’t done dropping bombshells. Just this morning in an interview with GMA 7, he revealed that he’s been talking with former President Erap Estrada about his political plans for 2010. In the interview, he revealed that either one of them will run in 2010. If the law doesn’t hinder Erap from running, then Brother Mike will bow out and support Estrada’s candidacy. If Erap is prohibited, then Erap will back up Brother Mike’s campaign instead. Now this is just one of the most insane alliances I’ve ever heard of...

I was watching a news program on channel 7 this evening when a 30 second advertisement caught my undivided attention. It showed former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada taking a food supplement called Artho which would “enable” him to run despite his old age and knee problems. In the ad, he’s seen jogging and outpacing what seems to be someone that looks like Senator Mar Roxas on a Padyak! Hahahaha! Whoever is behind this ad is just brilliant! Not only was it entertaining, it’s relevant to the times. At least Senator Roxas is getting free media mileage from his...