WITH less than five months before the May 10 elections, Liberal Party presidential candidate Benigno “Noynoy” C. Aquino III maintains his sizable lead even as three other contenders improved their numbers, Pulse Asia’s December 2009 survey showed.
Pulse Asia asked 2,000 respondents on Dec. 8 to 10: “Of the people in the list, whom would you vote for as president of the Philippines is elections were held today?” In the list were Aquino, Sen. Manuel “Manny” Villar of the Nacionalista Party, former president Joseph Estrada of Puwersa ng Masang Pilipino, former Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro of Lakas-Kampi-CMD, Sen. Richard Gordon of Bagumbayan, and Eddie Villanueva of Bangon Pilipinas.
Aquino got 45 percent, 1 point higher than his October 2009 score of 44 per cent; Villar, 23 percent, 4 points higher than the 19 percent that he got in October; Estrada , 19 percent, an 8 point increase from his previous 11 percent.
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