“So, what?” the guy wrote derisively.

This is what: It’s consistent. It’s continuing.

And it is clear, present, and verifiable. Deal with that.

Gibo’s heady rise is simply undeniable, unstoppable: From single-digit voter preference rating to double-digit and rising.

Lakas-Kampi-CMD presidential candidate Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro is soaring on the wings of massive student support ahead of the first elections yet to be decided by youth voters.

Campuses are serially folding into Teodoro’s one gigantic camp.

The latest campus to embrace “green,” Gibo’s campaign color is Holy Angel University in Angeles, Pampanga, whose students  gave him a preference rating of 39 percent, way ahead of the nearly identical scores for Sen. Benigno “Noy-noy” Aquino III  of 26 percent and Sen. Manny Villar’s 25 percent in a university-wide mock polls.

Students of Teodoro’s own De La Salle University earlier gave him a resounding and insurmountable 66 percent preference rating against Sen. Richard Gordon’s 20 percent and Aquino’s 13 percent.

Previous to this, University of the Philippines students gave him a 26-percent rating against Aquino’s 22 percent and Villar’s miserable eight percent. Quite ironically, Villar graduated from UP.

In youth-focused online social networking site polls, Teodoro is also the runaway top choice.

He ticked 39.51 percent in Apps.Facebook/philelection against Bro. Eddie Villanueva’s 28.87 percent and Gordon’s 18.43 percent.

In a Philippineelections.com poll, the administration candidate clocked 36 percent against Aquino’s 21 percent and Gordon’s 13 percent.

And in Philippinepolls.com’s survey, Teodoro garnered a preference rating of 31 percent against Villar’s 26 percent and Aquino’s 23 percent.

In a much earlier online poll, Gibo was also the undisputed top choice.
In the Manila Bulletin’s website http://www.mb.com.ph/home, he kept a steady lead with 45-percent (25,814 of the 57,578 of those who registered their choice of the next President) score.

This only means the educated and intellectual segment of the population is rooting for someone who understands their anxieties and concerns and yet mature enough to tackle serious matters of state.

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Primo Gasmen of Alcala, Panga-sinan was an overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia. He was wrongly accused of killing his Nepalese co-worker. This was not proven in court, yet he was sentenced to die by beheading.

Mediaman Fundador Soriano, Ahon Pinoy partylist nominee, wasted no time and organized a fund-raising campaign at the now-defunct People’s Tonight International, where he was managing editor.

More than P800,000 was raised. The dollar equivalent was turned over to the Department of Foreign Affairs. It covered the “blood money” given to the family of the Nepalese allegedly killed by Gasmen.

Soriano thus almost single-handedly spearheaded the drive  to save the life of a modern hero. Because the 10 million OFWs are under-represented at the Lower House, this is the priority advocacy of Ahon Pinoy.

Apart from this, Ahon aims to provide jobs for returning OFWs; no-collateral business loans of up to P1 million; study now-pay later program up to college for the education of the OFWs’ children; low-cost housing for OFWs and their family; and legal assistance.

It also advocates the protection of the rights of nurses; distribution to coconut farmers of the coco levy fund; and the modernization, “depoliticization,” and institutional strenghtening  of electric cooperatives. In short, Ahon is all for the  service of every Filipino worker.

Ped Xing wishes Fundy and his Ahon colleagues all the luck!