MANILA – The latest Pulse Asia survey shows newly-elected Sen. Loren Legarda topping the list of six probable presidential wannabees.
In the trust ratings, ousted President Joseph Estrada, who has been charged with plunder and detained for over six years, obtained a 42 percent trust rating, while President Arroyo slid by one percentage point in trust, obtaining a mere 25 percent, as culled from a nationwide poll conducted by the research firm from June 28 to July 10 this year.
In the list of six probable presidential aspirants for 2010, Sen. Legarda topped it, with an overall nationwide score of 32 percent, followed by Vice President Noli de Castro at 21 percent. Third placer was Sen. Panfilo Lacson, with an overall total of 19 percent, followed by Senate President Manuel Villar Jr. at 10 percent. Fifth placer was Sen. Manuel Roxas II with eight percent and Sen. Richard Gordon with three percent of the vote.
In the awareness and trust ratings of
select public figures, Legarda obtained a high 76 percent trust rating,
followed by Villar, who scored 65 percent, in a tie with Roxas. Lacson earned
64 percent in trust ratings while De Castro scored 50 percent.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno
rated only 27 percent in trust ratings; Com-mission on Elections Chairman
Benjamin Abalos Sr. obtaining 24 percent, or one percentage point lower than
President Arroyo. Comelec Commissioner Rene Sarmiento scored even lower, with a
low trust rating of a mere 16 percent, which low rating could perhaps be traced
to his having been shown on TV during the Mindanao special elections as having
lied, along with other Comelec officers, on the election documents having been
brought to a hotel in Iligan City, and his reluctance to take on the probe in
the Maguindanao poll irregularities immediately after, saying he was too ill to
take on the job.
Military chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon
also obtained very low trust ratings, earning only 19 percent trust from the
respondents while Philppine National Police chief Oscar Calderon rated an even
lower trust rating pegged at 17 percent.
In the early presidential survey race,
the results show that Legarda’s largest vote came from Luzon, at 37 percent,
followed by Mindanao, with 33 percent and followed by the vote from the
National Capital Region at 31 percent. She is weakest in the Visayas with 19
percent. She scored 26 percent among the ABC voters; 31 percent in the D class and
37 percent in the E class.
De Castro is weakest in NCR, with a mere
10 percent, as well as Luzon, with 15 percent. He scores higher in the Visayas
with 34 percent of the respondents’ vote, while Mindanao gave him 27 percent of
the vote. In the ABC class, De Castro registered at 14 percent; D and E classes
at 21 percent.
Lacson’s score was high in Metro Manila
with 27 percent of the vote and in Luzon, with 24 percent. He is weak in the
Visayas with a mere 8 percent and Mindanano at 16 percent. In the ABC class, he rated 21 percent while D
and E classes gave him 19 percent of the vote.
Villar scored 10 percent in the NCR
region, 9 percent in Luzon, 15 percent in the Visayas, 7 percent in Mindanao,
with 13 percent from the ABC class, 11 and 9 percent from the D and E class
respectively.
Roxas had a 10 percent vote from the NCR,
Luzon with 4 percent, Visayas at 15 percent and Mindanao at 8 percent. He had
14 percent from the ABC class, 8 and 7 percent from the D and E class
respectively.
Gordon had a 3 percent nationwide, a one
percent rating in Metro Manila, 6 percent in balance Luzon, 2 percent in the
Visayas and 1 percent in Mindanao. He had 3 percent from the ABC class, 4
percent from the D class and 2 percent from the E class.
In the trust ratings arena, Mrs. Arroyo
has been consistently obtaining a low trust rating. From January to June this
year, her trust ratings fluctuated from 25 to 26 percent, with her distrust
rating also being consistent during the six month period of 2007, ranging from
a high of 41 percent to a low of 37 percent.
