TWENTY FIVE of Angeles City’s 33 barangays, including the resettlement sites of Epza and Northville, going Ed Pamintuan’s way.
Even Blueboy Nepomuceno’s own bailiwick of Barangay Cutcut appears to have given in: 17 respondents going EdPam, 16 remaining Blue’s.
Barangay Pulung Maragul, where sits city hall, is delivering Pamintuan’s biggest margin of 19 to Nepomuceno’s 2.
Big as a Pampanga town, nay, bigger than a third of the province’s local government units in voting population and in income, Barangay Balibago is going Pamintuan too, notwithstanding it being my favorite candidate’s – Tony Mamac – own turf: 55 of the former to the latter’s 28, the sitting mayor smacked at the doormat with 21.
Consolation to Blueboy, if any, is his thread-slim lead in Barangays Sto. Rosario, Sta. Teresita, Ninoy Aquino, Lourdes Nothwest, Agapito del Rosario and Mining.
So goes the finished tally sheet of an “independent” survey of 988 respondents cnducted in the period March 13-24 by one Paragon Research Center.
For the record: Pamintuan was chosen by 51 percent of the respondents, Blueboy by 29 percent and Mamac by 15 percent. A total of 39 respondents (9 percent) did not name their preferred candidate.
Survey analysts attributed Pamintuan’s lead to his performance and achievements as mayor of this city from 1992 to 1998.
“At least 8 out of 10 people said they remember him as the mayor who rebuilt the city from the devastation wrought by the Mt. Pinatubo eruption,” a survey brief said. Yes, those EdPam tarpaulins did indeed deliver their messages – “When Angeles City needed hope, he delivered…”
Current issues impacting on the sitting Nepomuceno were likewise factored in as contributory to his low survey ratings, to wit: the worsening garbage problem in the city compounded by the P64 million debt of the city to the Kalangitan landfill which was further complexed with the P812- million loan from the Phlippine Veterans Bank for the construction of a sports complex.
Pamintuan’s trans-sectoral support: from AB to CD down to the E socio-economic brackets showed the issues against Nepomuceno, if not for Pamintuan, reach all levels. And again, the latter’s messages are being delivered right.
Fifty one to 29. A lead of 22 percentage points going into the midpoint of a race makes a most ideal pace, unfrenzied, unpressured, unhurried and therefore enjoyably winnable. So one political whiz tells me. And I believe him, having seen him backstopped election campaigns in both local and national levels.
It may still be a long way to May 10, but to the survey questionnaire’s query: If the elections were held today, whom will you vote for mayor, Ed Pamintuan would be popping champaigne corks by now.
Yeah, and lest we forget, Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting too, garnering a total of 479 respondents (48 percent) to Dr. Ric Zalamea’s 353 (36 percent) and former priest Chris Cadiang with 84 (9 percent).
Cabigting won in 29 of 33 barangays, again including the Northville and Epza resettlement areas.
The election in Angeles City for both mayor and vice mayor may well have been sealed, packed, and delivered there.
Even Blueboy Nepomuceno’s own bailiwick of Barangay Cutcut appears to have given in: 17 respondents going EdPam, 16 remaining Blue’s.
Barangay Pulung Maragul, where sits city hall, is delivering Pamintuan’s biggest margin of 19 to Nepomuceno’s 2.
Big as a Pampanga town, nay, bigger than a third of the province’s local government units in voting population and in income, Barangay Balibago is going Pamintuan too, notwithstanding it being my favorite candidate’s – Tony Mamac – own turf: 55 of the former to the latter’s 28, the sitting mayor smacked at the doormat with 21.
Consolation to Blueboy, if any, is his thread-slim lead in Barangays Sto. Rosario, Sta. Teresita, Ninoy Aquino, Lourdes Nothwest, Agapito del Rosario and Mining.
So goes the finished tally sheet of an “independent” survey of 988 respondents cnducted in the period March 13-24 by one Paragon Research Center.
For the record: Pamintuan was chosen by 51 percent of the respondents, Blueboy by 29 percent and Mamac by 15 percent. A total of 39 respondents (9 percent) did not name their preferred candidate.
Survey analysts attributed Pamintuan’s lead to his performance and achievements as mayor of this city from 1992 to 1998.
“At least 8 out of 10 people said they remember him as the mayor who rebuilt the city from the devastation wrought by the Mt. Pinatubo eruption,” a survey brief said. Yes, those EdPam tarpaulins did indeed deliver their messages – “When Angeles City needed hope, he delivered…”
Current issues impacting on the sitting Nepomuceno were likewise factored in as contributory to his low survey ratings, to wit: the worsening garbage problem in the city compounded by the P64 million debt of the city to the Kalangitan landfill which was further complexed with the P812- million loan from the Phlippine Veterans Bank for the construction of a sports complex.
Pamintuan’s trans-sectoral support: from AB to CD down to the E socio-economic brackets showed the issues against Nepomuceno, if not for Pamintuan, reach all levels. And again, the latter’s messages are being delivered right.
Fifty one to 29. A lead of 22 percentage points going into the midpoint of a race makes a most ideal pace, unfrenzied, unpressured, unhurried and therefore enjoyably winnable. So one political whiz tells me. And I believe him, having seen him backstopped election campaigns in both local and national levels.
It may still be a long way to May 10, but to the survey questionnaire’s query: If the elections were held today, whom will you vote for mayor, Ed Pamintuan would be popping champaigne corks by now.
Yeah, and lest we forget, Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting too, garnering a total of 479 respondents (48 percent) to Dr. Ric Zalamea’s 353 (36 percent) and former priest Chris Cadiang with 84 (9 percent).
Cabigting won in 29 of 33 barangays, again including the Northville and Epza resettlement areas.
The election in Angeles City for both mayor and vice mayor may well have been sealed, packed, and delivered there.
