Early Election Ads and Political Gimmicks

What does it take to be voted?

Name recall? Popularity? Looks? All these are just part of a large arsenal of political gimmicks that politicians practice. Some gimmiks that you can see almost every corner of this country are congratulatory gestures from aspiring and current politicians. Examples are as follows:
1. Happy Fiesta! FROM COUNCILOR PAPOGI (VOTE 2010!)
2. Happy Festival! FROM VOTE MAYOR PAPOGI
3. Congratulations to the Graduates! VOTE FOR ME! VOTE FOR ME! COUNCILOR PAPOGI
4. Happy Anniversary! FROM GOVERNOR PAPOGI
5. Congatulations for Passing the Board/Bar Exams! FROM VICE MAYOR PAPOGI
6. Condolence FROM COUNCILOR PAPOGI
7. Congratulations for your 5th death anniversary (?), hehehe VOTE FOR ME 2010

Kidding aside, these gimmicks are actually ( il )legal as far as early electioneering is concerned. Furthermore, there are Senatorial and Presidential candidates who started their campaigns as early as three years ago. Evidently, you can see and hear their commercials on tv and radio stations. Now, if senators and department secretaries can do their expensive early political TRI Media campaigns, what hinders the local politicians to do the same? Besides, should their be prosecution, the law applies to everyone, right? That would mean filing cases against the entire government structure from the powerful barangay captain up to the vice president. So, cutting the story short, every aspiring politician can actually do their political ads and campaigns as early as right after an election because the law against such practices is practically useless. And if the law can be implemented, who will implement and prosecute the government? Only POLITICAL WILL can answer this dead end question. Sad but True.

Let me ask you this, if your ulam every morning, lunch and dinner is adobo everyday, will you get angry and curse the one preparing your food for wanting you to die early or praise that person for preparing adobo everytime of the day? On the other side of the story, if you will see election ads from a politician everytime you go out of the house and back home from work 366days in a year, will you get angry? Praise the politician for his face everyday? Or masusuya ka rin? Just a question.

I call the younger ones as "THE NEW AGE GENERATION OF VOTERS", a generation of intelligent, non-traditional, more aware and informed voters. And this is good news... very good news. Regardless of political ads, posters, tarpaulines and gimmicks of aspiring politicians, still, the voice of my new age voters will prevail. They can see beyond the paid media ads and campaigns. They can be "hired" but they can't be bought! ( gemays! mayat mayat ayus ayus! )

- Adobo