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Thursday, April 7, 2022

Some candidates should be realistic: fold up and withdraw. Lost cause

It is more fun criticizing


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All ready there are talks of quitting and or shifting alliances and supporting a common candidate vs BBM or switching alliances

The reality bites:

    1.  Ranking in the surveys

        The size of caravans and rallies are indicative of the support and popularity of the candidate.                   Lack   of or miniscule attendance are indicative of the support  of the candidate which is                         verifiable   vs the result of the survey.

       The debate, the media interview, the social media posts are very revealing say plenty about the 
        candidate.   The current campaign sorties really show that some of the candidates are better off
        elsewhere and are painfully inept in terms of international relations and even so in running the
        country. Imagine a comedienne being a Palace adviser.   

       Some are erudite but lack the administrative experience of running a group or executing plans
       and programs.   Very few among the candidates have this experience only three

       There are those whose experience is running a city but whose knowledge of ways of means 
       to run a country is suspect if not deficient.

        My favorite candidate is not  saying it quits, but says he lacks the P800 million to finance local
        campaign  (violated some of tenets of strategy - misdirection and secrecy Even American
        generals employed decoys and misdirection in European campaign and lately even 
        in Desert Storm

      Many say publicly to disregard the survey  But marketers use them heavily to predict the 
      success of product campaigns.   There are no other metrics for the campaign except perhaps the
     surveys.   Surely many fear the survey because they are indicative of the inputs to the campaign

     The size of rallies and caravans certainly match the surveys.  


    2.  Flow of campaign funds

        The campaigns cost plenty of money.  Lots of it.   Before a councilor seat may mean  P100k 
    fund requirements;   mayor  P500K to P1M, governor  P10M, senator  P100M,  Pres P500m

   Why can we say this?   Some of our business associates borrow money before the election.   We 
    have lent money to a sibling who ran for a local post and we aware of the amounts involved

    Now it could be councilor   P5M, Mayor  P100M    Governor. Congressman  P200 to P500M
    Senators  About P1B, and Pres say P5B.   Not everybody has these resources

    A councilor friend is borrowing P2M for the last 30 days of campaign

    So what is the ways and means?   The flow of funds from supporters - businessmen, friends
    and other investors.   

    Surely they would not support dead ducks Not many would be dejaderos.   So those at the tail
    end of survey would get zero funds flow  Surely not many of the candidates have war chest as big
    as Ellon Musk or Bill Gates.     The campaign sorties expenses for caravans and rallies, plane fares,
    helicopter rides must have drained the  coffers of many candidates.  For the last 30 days, some of
    the  candidates may have run out of funds.   Those who have no more funds will surely  say finis
    to their campaigns.  

   The survivors

   Only the top two in the survey who clearly have advantages in the strengths and in the  survey
   will slug it out  on election day.  May the best candidate win and lead our country to better future
   (But at the end of the day, we the citizens working hard for our own self improvement and progress
   will count more than the winners)

   The  rest will lick their wounds and count their losses and count this as an expensive tuition in life