“Looking at those proclaimed, I could have easily done that,” Gordon said, referring to the winners in the Senate race. Gordon blamed popularity surveys for his election defeat, saying they conditioned the minds of the voters. “It didn’t mean people don’t respect me,” he told his cheering supporters. “Before, it was just about money. These days, the new enemy is the survey.”
“There was no good that came out of surveys except that they were used as a propaganda weapon by those who paid for them,” he added. “I knew I was going to lose because the mind-set brought about by the surveys cannot be reversed. When I ran, of course, I wanted to win. But I knew it was going to be an uphill climb. I had very little money, but I said if I don’t try, I would never be true to myself,” Gordon said.
The senator said the outcome of the last elections had pushed him all the more to pursue the case for damages he had filed against Social Weather Station and Pulse Asia Inc., the survey firms that regularly released findings that showed him fifth in the presidential race.
“My case continues. I will prove that those who paid for the surveys always got higher than those who did not pay. It cannot be said that I was weak-kneed and I did not do the right thing,” Gordon said. Many of those who supported Gordon refuse to believe that he got less than 500,000 votes.