TVBS Public Opinion Poll
(March 31, 2009)
(Source PDF)
(Source PDF)
1. The upcoming Taipei County Executive election will be held at the end of the year. Are you going to vote?
| Definitely | 54% |
| Maybe | 25% |
| Not sure | 9% |
| No | 12% |
2. For this year’s Taipei County Executive election, if KMT’s Chou His-wei were running against DPP’s Su Tseng-chang, whom would you vote for if you were to vote tomorrow?
| | December 29, 2008 | March 26, 2009 |
| Chou His-wei | 29% | 27% |
| Su Tseng-chang | 53% | 52% |
| Don’t know / Undecided | 18% | 21% |
3. For this year’s Taipei County Executive election, if KMT’s Chu Li-luan were running against DPP’s Su Tseng-chang, whom would you vote for if you were to vote tomorrow?
| | March 26, 2009 |
| Chu Li-luan | 39% |
| Su Tseng-chang | 41% |
| Don’t know / Undecided | 20% |
4. For this year’s Taipei County Executive election, if KMT’s Wu Don-Yih were running against DPP’s Su Tseng-chang, whom would you vote for if you were to vote tomorrow?
| | March 26, 2009 |
| Wu Don-Yih | 34% |
| Su Tseng-chang | 48% |
| Don’t know / Undecided | 18% |
5. For this year’s Taipei County Executive election, if Pan-Blue’s James Soong were running against DPP’s Su Tseng-chang, whom would you vote for if you were to vote tomorrow?
| | March 26, 2009 |
| James Soong | 31% |
| Su Tseng-chang | 50% |
| Don’t know / Undecided | 19% |
Note: The public opinion poll was conducted from 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm on March 26 with 864 people over 20 years of age successfully surveyed and 117 people declining to be surveyed. The margin of error associated with this sample is plus or minus 3.3 % with a 95 % confidence interval.
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Of course the down side is that this may be an attempt at a KMT mobilization call.
ReplyDeleteThe KMT controls so much information and how it is delivered, it is very difficult to get an alternative message. They may use this control over the media to manipulate voters access to pertinent information that could influence their choice come election time.
My light blue girlfriend lives and works in Taipei County. According to her and her blue co-workers, the reason Chou Hsi-wei is unpopular is because Su broke the bank in his previous term and left Chou with no money to do anything. Apparently, Su overspent on the Taipei County "City Hall" building and the surrounding area. (so the story goes)
ReplyDeleteI'm disappointed Sean Lien wasn't included in the survey. He must have more political capital than James Soong!
ReplyDeleteAnon, your gf ain't "light" blue, haha. Almost all the counties except Taipei City are in poor financial straits. Taipei County is actually very well off compared to southern cities/counties and has been given a lot more money by the central govt in the last two years, which are most of Chou's term.
ReplyDeleteI live in Taipei County. There's a general feeling that other than the beautification of certain areas, nothing really happened in Taipei County these few years that wasn't already happening.
The stuff that did happen didn't happen very well--the sewer works caused my apartment to start to smell; the patching of the road near where I live has been extremely haphazard and made the road more uneven or otherwise worn away very quickly; police are giving motorcyclists a hard time without any clear reason why; enforcement of who can street vendor and where is unclear, but they are giving out more tickets.
Taipei County has installed a whole bunch of traffic cameras whose single purpose appears to be to make as much money for Taipei County as possible rather than increase the safety of roads here.
Taipei County has gotten a huge amount of money because it's becoming a "directly administered city" soon, just like Taipei and Kaohsiung Cities. They like doubled the police force or something like that. In spite of that thefts seem to be on the rise (attempted theft of my neighbor recently but the overall picture is more impt).
Last, the Chou Hsi-wei has suffered from a lot of bad publicity that is mostly his fault. Before he started office, he was already ordering an expensive renovation of his office (this is completely opposite of what Ma Ying-jeou's reputation was and he was elected largely on the credit of Ma). When a supposed "tiger" was on the loose, he led a troope of officers up a mountainside with a sword? Something fairly ridiculous. What was he planning to do if he really did run into a tiger? Seriously retarded.
It ended up being a stray dog. Then lately, there's issue of his vice mayor besides infidelity (personally not a big deal to me), but apparently having some fun on govt time.
There are some things that I agree with. The man-made wetlands used to treat sewage while creating greenspace are a good idea. Some of the water works I agree with. But note that some of this was the result of local activism and not some wise policy on the part of Chou Hsi-wei.
Progressives have a lot to dislike in the destruction of historical sites in Taipei County including Lo Sheng Liao Yang Yuan, the former leprosy colony, among others. Like Taipei City, Miaoli County, there is absolutely no respect for historical buildings.
There wasn't any particular good reason to vote for Chou except that Ma was popular back then. Now Ma's not, and Chou still doesn't give you a reason to vote for him. It's possible he hasn't done that poorly of a job, but he sure hasn't done a good one either.