Vice President Leni Robredo is leading online presidential surveys based on Faceboon analytics.
Robredo managed to surpass Marcos this month based on the Facebook engagement score.
Data scientists Wilson Chua and Roger Do said that Robredo made the big jump from February to March based on engagement.
“Starting March 1, VP Leni is now ahead of BBM,” Chua said in a recent interview with NET25’s “Pinoy Scientist”, hosted by Dr. Guido David of OCTA Research.
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Robredo got 38.54 percent or 4,799,593 total engagements on Facebook. Her closest rival Marcos trailed by five points.
Based on 58 million Facebook data points, Robredo also leads Marcos by five points in March, with a total of 8 million engagements over her rival’s 7.5 million.
“It predicts an even larger engagement score for Leni in the coming weeks,” Chua said.
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But election surveys showed that Marcos remained to be the frontrunner with 60 percent and Robredo with 16 percent.
Social Weather Stations (SWS) and Publicus Asia also showed the same number.
