Happy New Year!
Our Senatoriables have been busy pre-campaigning for the past few months. Some have TV commercials and endorsements all over the place. Others have Facebook ads. And a lot are surprisingly (and happy to note) good at Social Media. Here are their ranking coming into the new year. Just a few months before election day!
This is all after the RH Bill voting. The ongoing Cebu and Pangasinan brouhaha. The failure of the FOI Bill. Etc etc. Any effects?
Interesting to note the jump in Twitter followers of Sonny Angara, and a drop in his FB likers. Gordon changed his Twitter handle from Chairman to Senator. Bro Eddie joined the race. And Trillanes has joined Twitter! Here are December’s rankings.
The difference between #s 5 and 6; and #s 11 and 12 are still huge. But don’t rest. It can change in an instant.
I read an article asking if FB likes and Twitter followers are good indicators of popularity. Or if we should take a look at “talking about”. For me, it is simple. If you like someone enough to like their page and / or follow them on Twitter, then most probably you will vote for them. Unless you are just there to troll them, which is the exception and not the norm, then you take that extra effort to know what they are doing, and read what they are saying.
That will give you more information into the elections. And will make you shade the circle beside their name. Social Media is a powerful tool. And even if the surveys aren’t showing the list below, I think things will even out coming into May. And the popularity we see will be the make up of half the Senate come election time.
Here you are: happy new year! Work harder!
[rank was from December]
| Senator | Rank | Total | ||
| Loren Legarda | 1 | 172,543 | 14,889 | 187,432 |
| Chiz Escudero | 2 | 65,275 | 98,212 | 163,487 |
| Eddie Villanueva | 0 | 132,334 | 9,306 | 141,640 |
| Dick Gordon | 3 | 125,142 | 4,450 | 129,592 |
| Koko Pimentel | 4 | 73,401 | 5,808 | 79,209 |
| Risa Hontiveros Baraquel | 6 | 30,179 | 44,932 | 75,111 |
| Bam Aquino | 5 | 59,699 | 12,056 | 71,755 |
| Sonny Angara | 7 | 48,938 | 19,813 | 68,751 |
| JV Ejercito | 8 | 45,498 | 18,388 | 63,886 |
| Alan Cayetano | 21 | 58,484 | 458 | 58,942 |
| Sonny Trillanes | 9 | 22,802 | 3,261 | 26,063 |
| Teddy Casino | 10 | 10,005 | 9,769 | 19,774 |
| Jun Magsaysay | 11 | 13,667 | 76 | 13,743 |
| Migz Zubiri | 12 | 6,846 | 5,176 | 12,022 |
| Mitos Magsaysay | 13 | 3,316 | 5,992 | 9,308 |
| Gringo Honasan | 14 | 1,453 | 6,213 | 7,666 |
| Cynthia Villar | 16 | 3,054 | 1,062 | 4,116 |
| Edward Hagedorn | 15 | 3,908 | 81 | 3,989 |
| Ernie Maceda | 17 | 960 | 2,585 | 3,545 |
| Grace Poe Llamanzares | 18 | 2,202 | 854 | 3,056 |
| Jamby Madrigal | 19 | 1,852 | 298 | 2,150 |
| Christian Seneres | 28 | 1,889 | 3 | 1,892 |
| Ricardo Penson | 30 | 1,736 | 0 | 1,736 |
| JC de los Reyes | 20 | 1,253 | 41 | 1,294 |
| Greco Belgica | 23 | 1,159 | 52 | 1,211 |
| Jack Enrile | 22 | 571 | 491 | 1,062 |
| Samson Alcantara | 26 | 639 | 44 | 683 |
| Nancy Binay | 24 | 57 | 530 | 587 |
| Marwille Llasos | 25 | 242 | 237 | 479 |
| Tingting Cojuangco | 27 | 296 | 100 | 396 |
| Lito David | 29 | 72 | 31 | 103 |
| Ramon Montano | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Baldomero Falcone | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The Padilla 7 
Congratulations Senator Loren Legarda!! Happy New Year!
Wow top 1 si mam loren legarda! astig! good job po! and happy new year!
Conrats po! Ang galing talaga ni Senator Loren Legarda!
congrats senator loren! you deserve to be the number 1! !
Magaling at masipag kasi si Senator Legarda kaya tama lang na maging number 1 sya! 🙂
Sa pagkakaalam ko talaga, si Legarda mataas na yung social media niya noon pa. yung iba tumaas nalang ngayong nag start ang campaign.
glad to hear that our politicians utilize to power of social media. im excited to see their progress in the next few months especially few days/months/weeks before the election.
Ask ko lang why zero rank ni villanueva?
Number lage si Legarda sa mga surveys, di nako nagtaka na number 1 din siya sa internet.
Well that’s true. If you want a REAL survey then this is it. You can see who the people really wants thru their soc. media sites. Well the top 10 here and the top 10 on the surveys are almost the same ,
Eddie Villanueva?? What’s he doing here. LOL.Well, talo niya pa yung iba. 🙂
Hahaha! Nakakatawa iyong mga comments para kay Loren. I-check niyo kung gaano kalaki ang increase niya mula November 2012 hanggang December 2012. 1,419 lang. Maryosep. Obvious na obvious na iisang tao lang ang nag-comment. Kitang-kita sa time and date ng posts: halos 1-minute lang ang interval. Naman.
si Bro.Eddie Villanueva na ang magiging no.1 nyan….GODBless the candidacy of Bro.Eddie