Just as I released my previous newsletter, this survey came out. It is significant, it provides a snapshot after months of jockeying by the aspiring candidates-to-be, to form coalitions, raise awareness, and raise funds, before the October deadline for filing candidacies. Then the President, claiming to be listening to public opinion which overwhelmingly disapproves of his run for the vice presidency, announced he was giving up his vice-presidential bid. Bong Go filed his candidacy for vice-president instead. The President has made noises about his daughter ought to be running for the presidency but she filed her candidacy for the mayoralty instead.