THERE IS no way for Gilbert Teodoro to lose Pampanga. No, there’s just no way for Gibo not to sweep Pampanga.
I’ve been asking people – of all walks of life – on their preferred presidential candidate and six out of ten say, without the least hesitation, “Gibo.”
But then, I may be talking to the wrong people or I may be projecting my personal biases which draw canalized responses.
Still, it’s no wishful thinking that there is no way for Gilbert Teodoro to lose Pampanga; that there’s just no way for Gibo not to sweep Pampanga.
More than the near-hundred percent attendance of all of the province’s barangay chairmen at the covered court of 3rd District Rep. Dong Gonzales’ sprawl of a district office in Barangay Sindalan, City of San Fernando, last Wednesday, it was the roaring huzzahs that greeted Gibo and punctuated every mention of his name that truly made even the skeptic believed that Gibo is it in Pampanga.
Then there was that some sort of a panata 2nd District Rep. Mikey Macapagal-Arroyo asked everyone present to acknowledge in re-affirmation of everyone’s vow not only to vote for Gibo but to actively campaign for him.
Duly noted too were 1st District Rep. Tarzan Lazatin and sprinting-by-the-mile in the Angeles City mayoralty race Ed Pamintuan in the truest shade of green, manifest of their hitching their bandwagons on the Gibo star.
And then there was Comelec-recount-winning Gov. Lilia Pineda all-too-maternal plea for an all-out-campaign for Gibo.
It won’t take a genius – aye, rudimentary knowledge of elementary arithmetic is all it takes, to find the sum of all Pampanga votes for Gibo here.
There are 505 barangay chairs in the province, excluding the 33 from Angeles City. Now, if they can manage to influence but half of those who voted them into office to vote for Gibo, that would easily translate to at least a third of the whole Pampanga vote. Granting that the last elections in all the barangay were three-way contests.
Factor in the mayors, who, but for the City of San Fernando’s Oca Rodriguez, Angeles City’s Blueboy Nepomuceno, and – maybe – Mexico’s Teddy Tumang, are uniformly pro-Gibo. Again, if only half of those who voted for them would go Gibo, then, that would account – by the most conservative estimates – to another third of the Pampanga votes.
That’s two-thirds of the Pampanga vote there.
Throw in – not as additional numbers but as reinforcing denominators – the Nanay Baby votes – easily over a quarter of the registered voters of the province, those of Congressmen Tarzan, Mikey and Dong, and EdPam’s Angeles City block. And the Gibo victory in Pampanga is complete.
Then there is the youth vote pa which – in Pampanga, as in major cities of the Philippines – is Gibo’s. Witness his soaring numbers in campus surveys from the University of Sto. Tomas, to Central Luzon’s biggest university, Holy Angel University, to the Angeles University Foundation.
All these considered, there is no way for Gilbert Teodoro to lose Pampanga. No, there’s just no way for Gibo not to sweep Pampanga.
Now, if only all these people who came, saw, heard and hurrahed for Gibo last Wednesday would do good on their pledge to go all out for him, then, indeed there is no way for Gilbert Teodoro to lose Pampanga. Truly, there’s just no way for Gibo not to sweep Pampanga.
I’ve been asking people – of all walks of life – on their preferred presidential candidate and six out of ten say, without the least hesitation, “Gibo.”
But then, I may be talking to the wrong people or I may be projecting my personal biases which draw canalized responses.
Still, it’s no wishful thinking that there is no way for Gilbert Teodoro to lose Pampanga; that there’s just no way for Gibo not to sweep Pampanga.
More than the near-hundred percent attendance of all of the province’s barangay chairmen at the covered court of 3rd District Rep. Dong Gonzales’ sprawl of a district office in Barangay Sindalan, City of San Fernando, last Wednesday, it was the roaring huzzahs that greeted Gibo and punctuated every mention of his name that truly made even the skeptic believed that Gibo is it in Pampanga.
Then there was that some sort of a panata 2nd District Rep. Mikey Macapagal-Arroyo asked everyone present to acknowledge in re-affirmation of everyone’s vow not only to vote for Gibo but to actively campaign for him.
Duly noted too were 1st District Rep. Tarzan Lazatin and sprinting-by-the-mile in the Angeles City mayoralty race Ed Pamintuan in the truest shade of green, manifest of their hitching their bandwagons on the Gibo star.
And then there was Comelec-recount-winning Gov. Lilia Pineda all-too-maternal plea for an all-out-campaign for Gibo.
It won’t take a genius – aye, rudimentary knowledge of elementary arithmetic is all it takes, to find the sum of all Pampanga votes for Gibo here.
There are 505 barangay chairs in the province, excluding the 33 from Angeles City. Now, if they can manage to influence but half of those who voted them into office to vote for Gibo, that would easily translate to at least a third of the whole Pampanga vote. Granting that the last elections in all the barangay were three-way contests.
Factor in the mayors, who, but for the City of San Fernando’s Oca Rodriguez, Angeles City’s Blueboy Nepomuceno, and – maybe – Mexico’s Teddy Tumang, are uniformly pro-Gibo. Again, if only half of those who voted for them would go Gibo, then, that would account – by the most conservative estimates – to another third of the Pampanga votes.
That’s two-thirds of the Pampanga vote there.
Throw in – not as additional numbers but as reinforcing denominators – the Nanay Baby votes – easily over a quarter of the registered voters of the province, those of Congressmen Tarzan, Mikey and Dong, and EdPam’s Angeles City block. And the Gibo victory in Pampanga is complete.
Then there is the youth vote pa which – in Pampanga, as in major cities of the Philippines – is Gibo’s. Witness his soaring numbers in campus surveys from the University of Sto. Tomas, to Central Luzon’s biggest university, Holy Angel University, to the Angeles University Foundation.
All these considered, there is no way for Gilbert Teodoro to lose Pampanga. No, there’s just no way for Gibo not to sweep Pampanga.
Now, if only all these people who came, saw, heard and hurrahed for Gibo last Wednesday would do good on their pledge to go all out for him, then, indeed there is no way for Gilbert Teodoro to lose Pampanga. Truly, there’s just no way for Gibo not to sweep Pampanga.
