Poll: Sukhumbhand top choice

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Published: 3 Nov 2012 at 16.53
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Incumbent Sukhumbhand Paribatra is the top choice among candidates for the office of Bangkok governor, according to a Nida Poll released on Saturday.

Sukhumbhand: First term ends in January

Pollsters from the National Institute of Development Administration interviewed 1,494 people in Bangkok from Oct 9-24 for their views on the most suitable person to lead the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA).

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Discussion 11 : 04 Nov 2012 at 19.4711
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Sukhumbhand's supporters are in favour of using BMA brand name sand bags to block all sewers in bangkok so as to keep the city dry, despite its outskirts are all flooded.
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Discussion 10 : 04 Nov 2012 at 11.2810
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What this poll says, partisan or not, is that of the people living in Bangkok (registered to vote or not) have an overwhelming preference for the incumbent, by a margin of 15% points. That happens to be the landslide difference between the two parties in the past election. It just happens that the favoured candidate belongs to the Democrat party which is also the overwhelming favourite in these constituencies for national elections. So, nothing unusual here.
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Discussion 9 : 04 Nov 2012 at 02.269
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Polls! Why do people believe in these polls? We are not told how they are asked and the percentage of the people compaired to the population they are no near accurate which ever side you take.
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Discussion 8 : 04 Nov 2012 at 01.348
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D2- Are you talking about the dishonest taxi drivers who refuse to turn on the metre.
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Discussion 7 : 03 Nov 2012 at 22.497
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For what it's worth - Nida is a right wing royalist undertaking founded by the Rockefeller's and funded by the Ford Foundation which was allegedly a CIA front in SE Asia in 1966.
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Discussion 6 : 03 Nov 2012 at 20.556
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People around Bangkok I've talk to see Sukhumbhand as unfavorable. They call him Pig-head. But January is a long way away.
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Discussion 5 : 03 Nov 2012 at 19.505
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Funny this yellow people and so childish. When BP publishes a poll with result in the other sense, they tell us how this kind of polls are same the coffee of the fortune teller. Wait the elections, better.
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Discussion 4 : 03 Nov 2012 at 19.284
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Bangon D1

Sorry to rain on your parade, but when he can only score 40% against an unknown candidate you don't need tinted specs to know that the guy is in real trouble. Why do you think the Dems have so far refused to pick him as their candidate?
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Discussion 3 : 03 Nov 2012 at 18.303
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What ever happened to the attack Plodprasop launched over the sand bags in the drains? Guess as always he was proven wrong. What a waste of government space. I am still tracking his command that 27 severe storms would be unleashed on Thailand this rainy season.....(we are not even close to the number).
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Discussion 2 : 03 Nov 2012 at 18.232
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IF the 5 million or so people from up-country working but nor registered in BKK were allowed to vote in BKK, how different the metropolitan and national political landscape would be...
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