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Sunday, March 25, 2007 |
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Can we trust
surveys? |
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Our own “survey” of the senatorial candidates
yielded surprising answers |
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By Rene Q. Bas
This question hounds
candidates—whether found by surveys to be winning or losing. We at
The Times decided to do our own polling.
We asked our reporters to present
a set of six Yes-or-No questions to the candidates. A seventh
question asked them to volunteer a brief comment about political
surveys.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Supreme Court
upholds political polling
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On May 5, 2001, the Social
Weather Stations and a Philippine publishing firm, Kamahalan, won a
decisive victory for political polling and survey freedom in the
Philippines...
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How Pulse Asia
does its polling
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Public opinion, attitudes,
perspectives, and preferences of people toward personalities,
events, circumstances, and issues of mutual interest are normally
measured by the sample survey or public opinion poll.
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SWS stands for
democratic discourse
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The Social Weather Stations (SWS)
is a private, independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit scientific
institute which conducts social surveys and does survey-based social
science research and other educational activities,...
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Despite the survey
results Team Unity will prevail in May
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“The one sure thing about
politics,” it’s been said, “is that what goes up comes down
and what goes down often comes up.”
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Surveys confirm
what is on the ground—GO is headed for a win
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The Philippines is a democratic
and republican State. Sovereignty resides in the people and all
government authority emanates from them. (Article II, Sec. 2, 1987
Constitution)
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Ang Kapatiran:
Pleasantly surprised
people share our ideals and principles
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When one of the Ang Kapatiran
senatorial candidates ranked 20th in a recent poll, we were
pleasantly surprised. Ang Kapatiran had not spent the kind of money
that others had on TV, radio and print.
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Tito: Look who’s
talking
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Former Sen. Vicente Sotto 3rd
told me he has never believed in surveys.
“I believe only in the survey conducted on election day!” he
stressed.
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