Sure winners

A LANDSLIDE victory for Comelec en banc-affirmed Gov. Lilia “Nanay Baby” Pineda. So I wrote here last week.
By no means is Pampanga’s favorite Baby the only avalanching winner in 2010. So shall I discard my long-time practice of shying away from making fearless forecasts of election outcomes and this time will go out on a limb, will stick my neck out and predict, if not prophesy, the winners. This on the very day the electorate troop to the polls.
The congressional contests are a ho-hum, stirring the least excitement with all re-electionists, Cong. Tarzan Lazatin in the first district, Cong, Dong Gonzales in the third, and Cong.woman Dr. Anna York Bondoc-Sagum, expected to pork-barrel their way to the House anew. So should we still talk of GMA’s chances at winning the second district?
In the City of San Fernando, it’s Mayor Oscar S. Rodriguez by a long, loong, looong mile. Only a collective idiocy of the voters would make a close fight out of a no-contest battle. And the Fernandino electorate are never known to be anywhere near moronic, intelligent voting being part of their political lore.
In Mabalacat, Mayor Marino Morales, who else? Boking ain’t sitting mayor continuously for the last 15 years for nothing, the three-term limit notwithstanding. And he will just be on his first re-election this year! Top that!
No election but a proclamation is all that Mayor Eddie Guerrero is waiting for in Floridablanca. He’s just simply unbeatable.
The non-citizenship issue that stripped him of the mayorship – on paper, but failed to physically unseat him falling by the wayside, Sasmuan’s Nardo Velasco is victor anew.
In Sta. Rita, Mayor Yolly Pineda is all set for a banya. And it’s not all because of her mom-in-law. The lady mayor has charisma all her own, in both the spiritual and political application of the word. Go ask the Rev. Fr. Eugene Reyes, the town parish priest.
In Guagua, we know of no candidate other than the re-electing Mayor Ric Rivera.
No prediction applied in Lubao, the only candidate there being a Pineda daughter. Ditto in Mexico, Mayor Teddy Tumang running solo.
In Sta. Ana, Mayor Omeng Concepcion is a shoo-in, his opponent in the political radar hardly registering.
It’s Mayor Chito Espino in Arayat, the current contest but a reprise of 2007’s, down to the principal protagonists.
With a bird-brained antagonist, no way, simply no way for Candaba Mayor Jerry Pelayo to taste defeat.
In Apalit, it’s balik-munisipyo for Mayor Jun Tetangco.
The Flores’ grip of Macabebe won’t be relaxed a bit with Mayor Bobong’s sis, Annie Flores-Balgan taking over him.
In my hometown of Sto. Tomas, after taking all the hit, Mayor Lito Naguit will still be it.
Sure winners all are the above. Safe bets there. Now, for the more exciting parts where close fights are expected, where predictions could go neither here nor there.
An even match between Mayor Blueboy Nepomuceno and comebacking Ed Pamintuan was tilted to the latter’s favor with the Iglesia ni Cristo vote. Yeah, I would agree with this paper’s banner: EdPam is poised to take over city hall.
In Magalang, the break-up of 2007 partners Mayor Romy Pecson and Vice Mayor Norman Lacson may well seat anew the once unseated Lyndon Cunanan.
In Porac, I would bravely venture Carling de la Cruz winning over incumbent Roger Santos, a Lapid for vice mayor there notwithstanding.
While it’s everybody’s game in Bacolor – all four candidates equally able, the “Buddy factor” stacks up the odds for the greenhorn Ron Dungca.
In Masantol, Mayor Peter Flores may well be ambushed – with votes, not bullets, this time – by one Jay Bustos.
In San Simon, residents rubbed the W(r)ong way, are putting their bets on one Baby Dalisay.
A Flores, the incumbent’s brother continues a dynastic rule in Minalin.
To San Luis, I have not been in a looong time too. So I plead utter ignorance of the town’s mayoral who’s who.
Anyways, by tomorrow we shall know whether I made good with this forecast or I made myself a fool. That is, of course, if the elections pushed through.