UP Mock polls mock idea of youth vote

From Malaya

According to the results of mock polls conducted at three leading colleges – the University of the Philippines (UP), the University of Santo Tomas (UST) and the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) – it appears like the youth in schools have common interests and ideals, but certainly no common candidates.

At least in the media, the story has largely been repeated: that of the supposed power of the youth to tilt the vote for or against certain candidates. These mock elections have been accorded front-page treatment, and the "winners" projected as idols of the young and the idealistic.

For a while, Senator Francis Joseph "Chiz" Escudero was touted as the presidential candidate who had successfully cornered the youth vote, until he backed out of the presidential race in November 2009. The event somehow triggered a free-for-all fight among the candidates for the so-called youth vote.

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