Blog Posts on presidential elections

DEVELOPING DEMOCRACY: THE 2003 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN AZERBAIJAN by Thinking Made Easy on Jul 28, 2011DEVELOPING DEMOCRACY: THE 2003 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN AZERBAIJAN I. Azerbaijan: An Independent Country The Republic of Azerbaijan is a part of a land mass collectively known as Transcaucasia. It is located is Southwest Asia and strategically situa...

We Have a New President by Warmstone on Jun 9, 2010Today, Benigno Aquino, Jr.  was proclaimed the Philippines’ President-elect together with Jejomar Binay as the Vice-President-elect.  As Senator Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. said in his speech, “Hail to the Chief!”  The speech is comic...

Post-Election Gigs Gigs Gigs by Trash Radio Manila on May 12, 2010Two interesting gigs will be held this coming Saturday, and I advise that you guys check them out, as part of your "post-election" to-do chores (haha).(Of course, that does not mean that you are letting your guard down. Every Filipino's task right no...

The Economics Behind A Democracy: How Much Did Our Presidentiables Spend? (Part 2) by MDJ Superstar on May 11, 2010A few months ago, I posted a little summary of who the top 20 overall advertising spenders were in Q4 of 2009. You can find it here. Big headlines back then – despite being surrounded by the certified big guns of the FMCG world, i.e. Unilever,...

I voted in the 2010 Philippine National Elections. by The Philippines and Beyond on May 10, 2010I just voted at the North Fairview Elementary School in Quezon City in precinct number 2106A clustered under precinct #493. It took me an hour to line up, check my name on the list, sign adjacent my name, put my right thumb mark, shade the oval besid...

Election 2010: A Historic Moment for Our Country by Even with PKD, Life Goes On on May 9, 2010It's a little more than an hour since voting was closed. In one polling precinct with almost 1000 registered voters, some were not able to vote for they were not able to wait for their priority number to be called. This prompted one friend to say th...

Presidential Survey Officially Closed! View Results Here! by The Daily Tribute on May 7, 2010The Presidential Elections in the Philippines is just 3 days from now and we are officially closing the survey that we launch last March 5, 2010. The purpose of this survey was to test the accuracy of the public surveys being published in TV channels...

Pambansang Halalan 2010: 3 Araw Na Lang! by Trash Radio Manila on May 7, 2010...

Legal and Political Ramifications of Postponing the Elections by The Right to Speak on May 5, 2010The glitches on the voting machines' memory cards found during Monday's mock polls have generated calls for either postponement of the May 10 elections or reverting it to manual voting. Monday's exercise has further heightened the public's fear of a...

Undecided by MushaMommy on May 3, 2010Its a week to go before the elections here in the Philippines.   The campaigns are winding down, the walls are again dirtied with campaign posters, the streets are traffic with the election sorties… and yet I remain undecided.  I envy those...