Duterte, Poe now statistically tied in Pulse Asia-ABS CBN poll
By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
Slowly but surely. That, in a nutshell, described Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s quantum leap in the result released yesterday, Duterte is just one percent away from pacesetter Poe after scoring 25 percent while the lady Senator has 26 percent.
Davao City first district representative Karlo B. Nograles believed that the momentum is now in favor of presidential bet Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte.
“The momentum is favoring Mayor Duterte and we expect the numbers to go higher, especially after his performance in the presidential debate,” Nograles said in his Facebook account.
Nograles said as the campaign progresses more people get to know Duterte and he believes that more voters will be convinced to vote for the mayor as the next president of the country.
“As it is now, the Duterte campaign is being run mostly by volunteers,” he said.
He said he never seen the spirit of volunteerism as strong as in the Duterte campaign and this Filipino bayanihan spirit will surely carry him to victory.
In the latest survey, Duterte gained one percent from the previous 24 percent in the ABS-CBN commissioned Pulse Asia Survey released last March 15. While there was a 2 percent decrease from 28 percent.
Vice President Jejomar Binay ranked third with 22 percent, gaining 1 percentage point from the previous survey. Administration standard-bearer Manuel “Mar” Roxas II was 4th with 20 percent, unchanged from the previous poll. Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago remained constant with 3 percent.
The survey was conducted on March 8-13, 2016, about the same time the Supreme Court (SC) dismissed the ruling of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to disqualify Poe as a presidential candidate in the May 2016 poll with 9-6 votes.
The survey had 4,000 respondents who are registered voters, ages 18 years old and above, with biometrics. It has a ±1.5 percent margin of error margin at the 95 percent confidence level.
