The one polling that went to Mr. Roxas, according to news archives, was the one done by a FM radio station, which goes by the name Monster Radio. I don’t do radio and am still stuck in the Pete Seeger/Joan Baez/Kundiman era so I don’t know anything about the station, the music it plays and its base of listeners. But any polling topped by Mr. Roxas is definitely an outlier (he has not topped any mainstream polling from time immemorial), so you have to find out why that particular voting segment skewed toward Mr. Roxas.

I found no answer and clues, except for the fact that that station is supposedly an “English-only station” with the announcers (are they still called by that generic name?) barely comprehensible to regional speakers like myself. I readily made two assumptions: It is not a pang-masa station and it is not representative of the “huddled masses” that have to wait for two hours under the scorching sun to get MRT rides. Just maybe, that kind of crowd skews in the direction of Mr. Roxas. Meaning, the people who really vote.

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