@PinoyAkoBlog Tama ka. Sa tingin ko ganito eh. Binubuhos ng mga volunteers ang kanilang panahon, pagod, pera, emosyon, pananampalataya, sa mahirap pero kailangan na kampanyang tao-sa-tao; kumbaga, retail, one-on-one. Kung may macoconvince, powerful ang conversion na yun. Pero kailangan din may
@PinoyAkoBlog kasabay na kampanya sa airwaves, yung wholesale kumbaga, dahil malawak ang disinformation, at dahil kaunti lang tayo (sa ngayon) mabagal ang one-on-one; kailangan ipaabot, at ipakilala, si Leni sa madla. Wala pa ring tatalong paraan kundi commercials. Pero, kung titingnan natin
@PinoyAkoBlog very disappointing ang mga commercial mula nung filing of candidacy. "Let Leni Lead" ang nagbuo at nagdulot ng pink movement; pero after that, parang naging malabnaw o malabo ano ba ang gustong sabihin ng ads. Unfair ito sa mga volunteers dahil kung kailan bakbakan na ng husto,
@PinoyAkoBlog dun medyo naging kulang ang advertising. Punto ko dati pa sa ad ni Marcos Jr.: siya na ang umangkin ng kampanya ng pagbabago at pagasa. Imagine that. Wala siyang ginawa nung pandemya pero dahil may koro sa ad at paulit ulit na pinupuri siya (na walang deba-debata sa kanilang
@PinoyAkoBlog hanay) naitanim sa isipan ng karamihan na ang galing pala niya: so much so na kung may kokontra, madaling ibaliwala bilang nega o sirang plaka ang nag-oobject sa mga linya ng mga Marcos. And yet, araw-araw, walang pagod na nagpupursigi ang mga volunteers. Kailangan mag self-
@PinoyAkoBlog analysis ang mga nasa taas sa kampanya at tingnan kung anu ba ang estado ng kampanya. May objective na sukat ng pagiging mabisa (o hinde) ang kampanya: ang tatlong reputable survey firms (SWS, Pulse, Laylo). Mero na tayong litrato ng katayuan ng mga kandidato (yung binaggit ko)
@PinoyAkoBlog malapit nang lalabas ang second round ng mga survey: while dipa sure tayo sa Laylo, we can expect Pulse any day now. Eh anong mangyayari pagka labas nun? Masusukat natin ang standing ni Leni vs. mga rivals and equally as importantly, herself: umakyat pa, bumaba ba, o pero lang ba
@PinoyAkoBlog --eh pag nakita na natin ito, kailangan natin tanggapin na halos dalawang buwan na ang nakalipas at nandun pa lang tayo at nandun naman ang iba. Ganito naman talaga ang preseso sa lahat ng mga kampanya: magkakaroon naman talaga ng mistakes. Ang contest ay kung kaya mong ayusin
@PinoyAkoBlog ito in time. May panahon pa. Kaya pa. Kailangan lang mag step up ang HQ.
@PinoyAkoBlog Kung may papel at lapis ka at konting panahon, hanapin ang resulta ng eleksyon nung 2016. Ilang boto ang natanggap ni Leni at ilang prosyento ba yun ng mga bumoto? Dun tayo dapat magsimula. Nasa atin pa ba sila? Tingnan ang mga survey: ilang porsyento ang kay Leni? Kung itra-
@PinoyAkoBlog translate yun bilang porsyento, pareo pa ba yun o higit pa, sa porsyento nung 2016? Kung oo, eh de solid at malakas tayo; kung hindi, eh ibig sabihin bago man lang tayo makaconvince ng bago, ang mga dating kumbensido ay kailangan nating akitin muli sa ating hanay o kaya, sila pa
@PinoyAkoBlog ang kailangang palitan bago man lang tayo pwedeng magsabi na lumalaki ang ating hanay. Gamitin na lang natin si Marcos Jr. sa kaniyang pagtakbo bilang senador at nung tumakbo ang kapatid niya, mga 30% ng botante ang pumili sa kanila; nung tumakbo si Marcos Jr. bilang bise, ang
@PinoyAkoBlog boto niya ay (more or less?) 32%. Bilang very rough guide, ano na ba ang mga ratings niya? Nug Setyembre sabi ng Pulse, 15%; nung Oktubre, sabi ni SWS, 47%! Laylo naman daw, 58%. Pag labas ng susunod na Pulse, titingnan ng lahat kung umakyat ba si Marcos Jr. at ilang porsyento,
@PinoyAkoBlog ganun na rin sa SWS at Laylo. Pabayaan na natin ang iba pang survey at di naman masyadong pinapansin ito ng mga kampanya. Malamang wala pang survey na may datos na nagsasabing na kapantay ngayon, ang porsyento ng botante si Leni na natanggap niya noon. Yun ang isang target na
@PinoyAkoBlog kailangang makamit. At higitan pa! Kasi para maging pangulo more or less kailangan may 39% ka minimum at ngayon, for whatever reason, pinagmamalaki ng mga Marcos na kung ginanap ang eleksyon ngayon, magkakaroon tayo ng presidente na makakatanggap ng majority ng mga boto. Depende
@PinoyAkoBlog sa kakausapin mo, huling nangyari ito (majority presidency) nung panahon ni Cory (1986) o ni Marcos (1969). Malaking bagay ito pero katulad ng maraming bagay sa kampanya ni Marcos Jr., projection ito: malamang kahit sila hindi pa sigurado kung short-term fad lang ito at baka
@PinoyAkoBlog masyadong maaga silang nag-peak (parang si Yorme). Ang kailangan lang nating tandaan: kapag nagkakaroon ng oportunidad ang mga tao na alamin ang record ni Leni, makita siya, makausap siya, converted agad sila. Pero nakapaligid sa kanya ang katakot-takot na nega na mga paratang na
@PinoyAkoBlog inulit at inulit hanggang naninawala na rin kahit ang ibang bumoto sa kaniya (kaya nga sa ngayon mas mababa pa rin ang porsyentong handang piliin siya sa 2022 kesa sa pumila sa kaniya nung 2016). Heto ang alam ng mga volunteers at ang pinapatunayan nila araw-araw; pero kailangan
@PinoyAkoBlog ang tinatawag ni Serge Osmeña na "air war" at HQ ang nagpaplano at execute nito.
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A thread of photos, just so you get to know them a little more as real people. Josefa Llanes Escoda, Vicente Lim, and Jose Abad Santos.
Josefa Llanes Escoda's personality shines through even in black and white photos; her being suffragette, and organizer for women's groups and the Girl Scouts points to her being a charismatic leader. She's in the terno with the sunburst pattern.
One can't help but be amazed with the wide range of causes Josefa Llanes Escoda was remarkable in, from the campaign to secure women the vote, to founding the Girl Scouts, to working for poor children as in this Tondo event in 1938. She's left most in the 1st photo.
This is the big bonanza that makes everything worthwhile for supporting the president: the transformation of telecoms from a public utility to something else: allowing foreign ownership but giving Congress the delightful duty of approving franchises for operations to be allowed.
I've been following this story, literally, for years, in the context of China Telecoms and its bid to be the Third Player. 11/22/2017, 2/14/2018, 7/17/2019 just for the saga of Uy.
Two follow-ups after the Uy matter was (temporarily, it now seems) settled: 4/14/2021 and 7/28/2021
My column today looks at opening snapshots of the campaign (surveys) and the manner in which Marcos Jr. claimed the image of change and hope and how, a month or two months into the campaign (however you measure it) Robredo is still cannot define herself. opinion.inquirer.net/147564/lost-op…
Here are the supposed Laylo slides going around:
Here are the publicly-released Pulse and SWS Surveys we have so far.
I once talked to a lady whose work for many years was in values education and support for public school teachers. She said this was a tremendous shortcoming of schoolteachers. I asked her, since when? Teachers used to be pillars of their communities. She replied, "martial law"...
And I asked, why? She replied: because with the dictatorship the regular change over of management ended; people overstayed and any promotion was strictly on the basis of not just toeing the party line, but expressing enthusiasm for the dictatorship. The corrosive effect of this
A thread on one of the most intriguing but which will probably remain unexplored, factors in the 2022 campaign. Federalism. Interesting FM Jr. pick the Partido Federal instead of the KBL or NP to whom his family has had long-standing affiliations.
KBL is out because it brings back too many bad memories and NP is out because since the Laurels conveyed it to the Villars, it isn't wholly-owned by the Marcoses (and brings up the KBL, with thew Laurels keeping it alive).
FM Jr. has blown hot and cold on Federalism but this article quotes him accurately on his father: "Federalism was not new to the country, Marcos said, because it was adopted by his father,.. when the Interim Batasang Pambansa was created." newsinfo.inquirer.net/929263/federal…
Along thread with a Friday reflection on family, power, change, and country. With a lot of readings. It begins with something I heard Paulynn Paredes Sicam say in a peace advocates’ forum close to 20 years ago: for change to become permanent, she said, you need ten years…
In a fundamental way I think shortening Marcos’ rule to “20 years” is misleading; it was 7 years of democratic rule and 13 of dictatorship. The distinction is important and requires a bit of explanation. The 1st phase was within the confines of institutions and precedents;
The 2nd phase was without limits and even more fundamentally, without the possibility of establishing a succession because despots cannot risk it; if democracies are about succession, dictatorship is about elimination.