You know, I am terribly curious. Why? Particularly, because of this:
Oh snap?
That was from “Pic Your President”, a site wherein Facebook users can vote for their favorite presidentiable and explain why they did so. The results are pretty surprising. Gordon (my personal pick) currently leads with a sizable amount of 3413 votes (and steadily rising), Gibo holds second with 1725 (also steadily rising) votes and third place is surprisingly not Noynoy, but Bro. Eddie with 331 votes. The three other hopefuls (JC, Jamby and Nick) have a single-digit vote count. Seems like the internet-savvy aren’t easily persuaded by the media. Sadly though, the majority of the Philippines isn’t internet-savvy. Worse? Some of them aren’t even able to vote yet (that includes me).
I then skimmed through the comments section, viewing some explanations and while some comments were logical and somewhat good, others scared me. Take this very intellectual answer for an example:
Ok, I don’t know if that’s serious or not (the txtspeak doesn’t help either way) but it just got me thinking: what if the people were this thoughtless with their voting? What if the majority were people like this? The thought just makes me shudder that these people have a hand in voting. And no, I don’t care if this is a joke, the matter is serious enough and shouldn’t be taken lightly like this.
Still it gives me great pleasure to see not the media moguls in the top spot of this poll, but rather the more rational and logical choices on who should really lead this country. Now if only this could translate to reality.
That ends this post. Thanks for reading and good night.
