MANNY Pacquiao, the People?s Champ, is being accused of employing below-the-belt tactics against his opponent in the congressional fight in South Cotabato.
His fans are dismayed because he is behaving like a trapo.
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Manny already got in dutch with the Comelec for distributing insurance cards to his admirers. The other day he complained to the media that he was being targeted for assassination by his opponent.
He was a no-show at a meeting organized by business, the church and cause-oriented groups to hear him talk on his political platform.
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Tsk tsk, I was building him up for President but now I am changing my mind.
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It?s all over but the shouting for Ali Atienza in Manila. The city of our affections will have a young and handsome mayor who will dutifully carry out the Buhayin ang Maynila program of his father in the next three years.
Lito Atienza will have the satisfaction of seeing his dream for a more progressive Manila become reality.
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You can bet on the certainty that Joe de Venecia will be reelected congressman in Pangasinan?s 4th district while his friend and ally Al Fernandez will win as mayor of Dagupan City.
The story that JDV will be beaten is a canard, black propaganda being peddled by his opponent.
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Tongues are wagging at the National Printing Office because an official has called select and favored printers and suppliers to a meeting to raise campaign funds for a Metro Manila candidate, the son of a ranking Palace official and backer of the NPO executive.
The official in question is moving heaven and earth to please his backer because his doubtful citizenship will be raked up when the elections are over.
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Team Unity candidates are getting more and more popular support while support for the GO candidates has been slipping fast.
Mock polls, independent surveys, analysis from experts all indicate a big win for the TU candidates. The TU?s confidence is peaking. GO candidates, meanwhile, are so desperate they are junking and betraying their fellow candidates to gain advantage.
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Metro Manila, the traditional opposition bailiwick, is going the Team Unity way, judging by the mammoth crowd that had attended its rallies. In Malabon-Navotas, in the city of Manila, Quezon City and Muntinlupa, all signs point to GO?s imminent collapse.
The Ilocos region, mainly on account of Chavit Singson?s leadership, will vote TU bets to the Senate. TU?s political kingpins in Central Luzon, Tagalog region and Bicolandia are pledging to work for a 12-0 shutout win for TU.
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In 78 of the 81 provinces, administration candidates are either running unopposed or the contending bets all belong to the administration coalition.
Administration candidates are also contesting 199 of the 219 House seats up for grabs while in highly urbanized or chartered cities, 29 of 36 mayoralty candidates are with the administration.
Seventy-one of 81 governors, 194 of 212 congressmen, 115 of 120 city mayors and about 90 percent of the municipal mayors running for reelection are with the administration.
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Dejavu from Jovy Salonga: A Marcos in GMA and a Ver in General Esperon.
Who will be Enrile and who will be Ramos?
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Global warming threatens to submerge parts of Manila and wipe out entire islands. There will be food and water shortages, receding coastlines and an increase in political and economic turmoil.
These things will happen for sure because it is too late to reverse the trend now. God help us.
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Candidates come up with the most brilliant ideas during elections.
They don?t remember what they were when the elections are over.
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GO is beginning to crack up. Supposed teammates are now asking close aides to carry out socalled special ops to promote themselves at the expense of teammates.
In some cases, it is the GO candidates themselves who have been brokering for the inclusion of their names ? and their names only ? in the sample ballots of administration governors, congressmen and big city mayors who have command votes and are sure of victory.
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The GO candidates, to a man, are alarmed by the irreversible shift in the voters? senatorial preferences. From their dominant position in the polls, the GO senatorial candidates have been losing support and popular acceptance .
An independent survey made in Laguna, home province of Erap, showed a big surge in the senatorial campaign of TU. Surveyed were highly urbanized towns, which the GO have claimed as their indisputable power base.
