The unexpected rise of dark horse Jojo Binay in VP race
Posted by ashertrix , Thursday, May 13, 2010 8:08 PM
Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay is confident the vice presidency is within reach. It will take a certain amount of magic, he says, for his closest rival to catch up with his numbers in the race for the second highest post in the country.
The sudden rise of Binay, said to be the dark horse in the vice presidential race, has stunned a nation that had seen Sen. Manuel Roxas II as the front runner since the start of the campaign until a week ago, when pre-election surveys showed the two tying for the first time.
On Thursday, three days after the elections, GMA Network’s partial and unofficial results showed Binay and Roxas still in dead heat — with Binay getting 13,374,107 votes as against Roxas’ 12,587,596 votes, a difference of about 800,000 votes.
“I am confident that I will win ... I will be neck-and-neck [with Roxas], in the sense that there will be a one million [vote] gap or less between us," Binay told GMA News Tuesday. In a press conference Wednesday, Binay tells reporters the only way he can lose is if his rivals cheat the election results.
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