It's Official: It's A Rule Of The Significant Minority!

It's official, it's a rule of the significant minority!

The Philippine congress has finally ended the tabulations for the top post, where Noynoy Aquino and Jejomar Binay will duly be proclaimed.

See table below from Inquirer.net.

For President

For Vice President.

The official tally ended up short than my estimates.

Here is what I wrote earlier, ``With a 90.2% of the total votes tabulated, where candidate Noynoy Aquino holds a commanding lead with 13,841,583 votes, I estimate the final tally to reach 15.3-15.5 million. This should reflect a little over 40% share of total voter turnout." The final score: 15.2 million.

But voter turnout surprisingly was even much lower than declared by media at the onset of count, we said, ``total voter turnout of the recently concluded elections, at 38 million, represents 75% share of the total registered voters, which according to the Business Mirror, had been the highest since 1978"

Based on the above using the highest figures, total turnout is only at about 72%.

We also noted, ``According to the NSCB, there are 50.7 million registered voters and 56.21 million projected voting population."

``This only means that Mr. Aquino’s share of votes would be reduced or extrapolated to only signify 30.5% and 27.56% of the population, respectively."

The official figures reduces these to 29.9% and 27.01% share, clearly a rule of the minority.

Last point, 19.8 million voters didn't vote (56.21 million-36.32 million) during this election. And this is substantially far more than the 15.2 million votes generated by the winner.

Bottom line: What people see is the actions of those whom have participated, what people don't see is the actions of those whom have not participated.

As American civil rights activist Jesse Jackson once said, ``In politics, an organized minority is a political majority."