Latest Survey Shows Rama more Popular Than Osmeña

Team Rama general campaign manager Councilor Jose Daluz III yesterday announced that based on the latest survey results initiated by a business group in Manila showed that Reelectionist Mayor Michael Rama is more popular to the voters compared to his opponent if the elections will be made last month.

The latest of the three surveys was conducted last April on two aspects whether the people is satisfied with how Rama managed the city compared to the previous administration and, if the elections was made during the time of the survey are they willing to vote for Rama.

Daluz said the survey was conducted to some 40,000 city residents, which is equivalent to eight percent of the 547,681 voting population in Cebu City and the results showed that 63 percent were satisfied the way how Rama managed the city when he assumed mayor in the middle of 2010.

The results showed that only 37 percent of the respondents believed that the administration of then mayor and now Cebu City South District Rep. Tomas R. Osmeña was much better compared to the present administration.

Daluz said Rama got 48.5 percent ratings from the respondents in north and south districts on the questions who between him and Osmeña they will vote if the election was conducted last month. The latest survey result was released last May 1 where Osmeña only got 45.5 percent ratings.

But Osmeña did not give so much attention to the survey results, by saying “Its fly by nite survey corporation. If you pay for it you will never lose.”

The survey results showed that Osmeña was more popular compared to Rama during the first part of last year, but the lawmaker was slowly overtaken by his opponent in October, and Rama continued to be more popular this year.

Daluz even said the number of undecided persons become smaller from 20 percent when the first survey was conducted in January last year compared to only six percent undecided in the survey results released last May 1.

Rama was so happy when the reporters asked him to comment about the latest results of the surveys, although Daluz refused to reveal the business group that conducted the surveys.

“Basin gusto tingali sa mga business group nga mahibaw-an nila kinsa sa duha ka kandidato pagka mayor ang angay nila nga suportahan mao nga naghimo sila og survey,” Daluz said.

“Dili na g’yud na mausab ang result. Kanang gamay na lang kaayo nga undecided voters tan-aw namo makuha na lang na sa suporta gikan sa mga sakop sa Iglesia Ni Kristo (INK)ug ubang religious groups,” Daluz said as he admitted that the Team Rama candidates had courted the support of INK.

Daluz believed that the issue about the two United States Dodge Charger vehicles that were reportedly taken by Osmeña after these were donated to the city by Bigfoot Entertainment might be one of the reasons why Osmeña’s popularity had went down.

Mayor Rama personally asked the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas to investigate Osmeña about it, but the lawmaker said Bigfoot owner Michael Gleissner did not pursue his plan to donate the two vehicles to the city upon knowing that Osmeña’s term as mayor would end on June 2010.

Gleissner, instead, sold the two vehicles to Osmena’s sister Minnie, but the vehicles are just parked at the lawmaker’s house in Barangay Guadalupe.