By Deighton Acuin
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A private poll chief revealed on Monday that Davao City
Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio's name and her association with President Rodrigo
Duterte are the top reasons of being the most preferred official to win the
2022 presidency.
"I think you can say it's largely a result of
association with the President, with name recall, with popularity, with the
national prominence of Duterte name," Pulse Asia president Ronald Holmes
said in an interview over ANC.
A pre-election survey conducted by Pulse Asia showed that
Duterte-Carpio topped the supporters' ranking with a rating of 26 percent.
However, Holmes said that such figures were "not that high."
"It's basically not exactly a high electoral support
for the President's daughter," he said, adding that a large chunk of
support comes from Mindanao.
"So, if you have majority support coming from Mindanao
and eventually netting 1 out of 4 support on the national level, it means we
can expect [that] the forthcoming election will still be largely dependent on
spatial or geographical voting," Holmes added.
The pollster stood firm by its integrity, noted they have
used the same methodology such as multistage probability sampling.
The pollster chief added the names for the research were
chose by the team in terms of academics and not by means of any subscription.
"So, the reliability of the survey is at the same level
as what we've done over the past more than 20 years," Holmes said.
"The names there are essentially names that have been
introduced by members of the research team. They may not necessarily run as
candidates but we've heard from certain reports that these are potential
candidates," he added.
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