Losing Good by the Numbers

Daddy lost for the very first time! Who would have thought, he was mayor the whole time for us. Imagine this, he was mayor all of Martial Law years and undefeated for three terms during post-EDSA Cory. The whole family is devastated! The town we tirelessly served snubbed us. Some of us even think that public service is a thankless job!

This isn’t entirely the feeling! My sister mayor and I don’t agree with them. We warned them beforehand but they insisted. They didn’t include us in their meetings. The campaign is managed by them debunking what we have established. They decentralized giving autonomy to the barangays. This strategy is suspect now. The reports from the barangays are raw and unreliable.

We stay at home on the day of the election. We wait for feedbacks from our poll watchers but there aren’t coming until we decided to make our own monitoring. We call on other ‘stakeholders’ to gather information for us. Early as five pm after election based on the partial tally in four big barangays we know that Daddy would lose by a slim margin. We used statistics in predicting the result. We gathered that every time Daddy wins he would get 59% of the votes. But the closest opponent would get 64% of the votes in his turn.