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Winning handily in the Philippines 2016 Elections

In Indonesia as in many countries around the world, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) undertakes indepth studies about political campaigns. One significant work of NDI is the Political Campaign Planning Manual shown below (click the image below to download pdf document.)

NDI is based at 455 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20001-2621. It has field offices in many countries around the world. See the list of field offices here.

In the Philippines, a number of centers and institutes - both private and public involve themselves in the study of political campaigns and winning in elections.

Due to the highly partisan as well as feudal-patronage system-based politics and political campaigns in the Philippines, the more cerebral and similarly inclined approaches to drawing voters often does not apply in this country.

However, even given the same kind of structure in such countries as Malaysia, Indonesia and many other Asian countries, technologies and techniques in campaigns that do away with unsightly practices like employing guns, goons and gold also have a chance of delivering votes as evidenced by the victory of many unknowns in the stable of aspirants to significant political posts from Councilor, Congressman, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Vice Governor, Governor, among others proves that honest-to-goodness campaigns can also successfully make candidates win.

There is hope that Philippine elections will become better and that with improved performance on the part of the country's security and law enforcement sector, the regulatory agencies and other quarters that help keep the level of vigilance, peace and stability during poll time high, many desirable candidates will attain to positions where they can pursue policies and true reforms in the country.

It is hoped that this will also be true for all the other neighboring states in Asia, and those in Africa, Europe-Eurasia and the Americas, etc.

-Pollmodernization.org invites political aspirants for Philippine 2016 and future elections to work with us and ensure ascension - installation to public office.

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2016 will emerge as the year of better electoral procedures

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The next presidential and local elections in the Philippines in Southeast Asia is predicted to be more orderly, peaceful and cleaner, more honest and characterized with higher integrity than all the other elections in the country and in Asia's history.

Asia and the Philippines have never had the best of the best in electoral systems. For 90% or more of the countries in the region, dishonesty, crime and violence, fraud and massive disorder in many parts of the nations mar elections. This has nothing to do with the inherent goodness of many Asian peoples but mostly it has its roots in age-old patriarchal and antiquated means of selection of leaders.

The lack of appropriate technology, both hardware and software prevent elections from being done in the proper manner thus resulting in the selection of national leaders that are exceedingly corrupt, revel in violent means of problem resolution or create instead of solve conflicts in their own turf. Hopefully, with better technology for both the public sector and for select groups in the private sector, in the Philippines, there is a forecast for improved conditions for holding clean, honest, orderly and peaceful elections.

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Demographics and Disaster

About 20 years ago, Pangasinan, Leyte, Cebu and Davao were the largest voting blocks in the country. Politicians running for national elective posts were always concerned with capturing the votes in these large voting populations.

Today, Cavite has come up from its former lower ranking, with Davao, Cebu and Pangasinan still remaining in the lead. In terms of population, Region VIII ranks lower than Region VII that in turn ranks lower than Region VI. However Leyte's population, counting Southern Leyte, is bigger than the biggest provinces in both Western (Region VI) and Central Visayas (Region VII).

The Philippines coastline is 36,289.098 kilometers. One of the longest in the world. If a third or more of that is the length of Visayas' coastline, the extent of devastation during a super typhoon like Haiyan or Yolanda will be great. Inland areas will hardly suffer from storm surges, but those living along the coastline will be hardest hit.

The population in coastal communities all over the country as of 2000 is 64,700,000. This translates to more than 50% of the total Philippine population of more than 90,000,000 at the time.

When the Philippine Coast Guard began recovery operations in Tacloban, together with all the other entities participating in search, rescue and recovery, they were appalled at the huge number of dead bodies floating in the sea off Tacloban's coasts and on the streets.

The National Disaster Risk Reduction Council (NDRRMC) began with a body count of the deceased at below ten. By the morning of November 11, 2013, NDRRMC declared that the number of casualties was 255.

Around the evening Malacanang told media in a press conference that the figure has gone up to 1,700. By reckoning, the final figure cannot be less than 10,000. Spokesman Mr. Edwin Lacierda refuted the claim of 10,000 casualties.

With more or less 10,000 kilometers of coast line, Visayas will be receiving the brunt of the force of super typhoon Yolanda. Therefore, if there are approximately 18,000,000 residents in Regions VI, VII and VIII with just a tenth living along the coast, that would still be around 2,000,000 people all in all.

This explains why the Coast Guard and the other volunteer rescue groups were confronted by the challenge of recovering hundreds of bodies floating off the coastal areas. The number of dead that were claimed by the sea, will be compounded further by the dead that littered the streets of Tacloban City.

Yahoo and other quarter's estimate that there are 10,000 that are feared to be dead is correct.

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