Fresh from being named by a Pulse Asia survey as the leading potential presidential candidate in 2016, Poe emerged as the top choice in the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) poll, which was first published by late Thursday.
According to the survey, which was conducted from June 5 to 8, Poe was chosen by 42 percent of the 1,200 adult respondents nationwide asked to name their three choices to succeed Aquino. That is an 11-percentage point increase from the 31 percent of respondents that picked her in March.
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Binay鈥檚 preference rating continued to take a hit鈥攆rom 36 percent in March to 34 percent in June.
On Thursday, Pulse Asia showed that Poe has overtaken Binay in its presidential survey, earning 30 percent compared to the Vice President鈥檚 22 percent. Poe said she was humbled by the results, while Binay considered it as a 鈥渨ake-up call.鈥�
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Interior Secretary Manuel 鈥淢ar鈥� Roxas II, the presumptive standard-bearer of the ruling Liberal Party, was third in the SWS survey, with 21 percent from 15 percent in March.
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte placed fourth in the survey with 20 percent, an improvement from 15 percent in March.
Unlike Binay, Poe, Roxas and Duterte have yet to declare their plans for 2016.
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Other politicians who figured in the poll were: former President and now Manila Mayor Joseph 鈥淓rap鈥� Estrada (7 percent); former senator Panfilo 鈥淧ing鈥� Lacson (7 percent); Senator Francis 鈥淐hiz鈥� Escudero (four percent); Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago (4 percent); Senator Ferdinand 鈥淏ongbong鈥� Marcos Jr. (3 percent); Senator Alan Peter Cayetano (2 percent); businessman and former senator Manuel 鈥淢anny鈥� Villar (1 percent); an unspecified Binay (1 percent); Senator Loren Legarda (1 percent); and Antonio Trillanes IV (1 percent).