Stories tagged
‘2016 Elections’

Votes by the pint

17 provinces remain vote-poor since 2004

by Vino Lucero

IN A tightly contested election, every vote matters, and even a vote-poor province could mean success or defeat for a national candidate.But that momentary attention may not mean a boost to the province’s revenues after the polls. In fact, among the consistent placers in the list of 20 provinces with the least number of registered […]

Read more… | Posted Friday, April 29th, 2016
Campaign Months 1 and 2

Top bets for prez, VP, senator
spend P54M daily on pol ads

by Floreen Simon and Malou Mangahas

EVEN WITH just part of their campaign spending captured by Nielsen Media’s monitoring of their political ads from Feb. 9 to the end of March, at least two presidential and two senatorial candidates have already breached half of the cap set by the Commission on Elections (Comelec).Interestingly, too, many candidates for national posts apparently went […]

Read more… | Posted Wednesday, April 27th, 2016