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.