FROM May 8 to 12, 2023, Tangere did a senatorial preference survey for the May 2025 elections. Someone asked, "Isn't it too early?" No, it's not. It was done two years before the May 2025 elections, just enough time for the parties to draw up their lists of potential Senate candidates, meet and groom them, and release some initial funding for the bruising two-year campaign.

Tangere said the mobile survey included 1,800 respondents ages 18 to 51, of various civil status, both males and females, from ABCDE households across the country. Not including those 51 and above is a flaw, since they — and the senior citizens in the household — "guide" the members of the family on who to vote for. This is seen in every election, where the campaign wards visit the houses of the senior citizens, the "elders of the tribe" in the barangay and the town, to secure their anointment and the clan votes.

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