This (online) battle is complicated

Obviously the weekend wouldn’t give the candidates a break. Campaigning continued on Saturday, with the candidates talking to the frosh who are attending their NSTP classes. My sister, who has been a similarly keen election observer, has finally received a copy of the Tapat GPOA after waiting for the past week. Some minds were still being convinced, especially in light of the previous day’s miting de avance and open forum. Inevitably the results were given the spin treatment.

But another part of the campaign has been waged online – through mailing lists and blog entries, from candidates, former candidates and party supporters. As the students awaited a summary of what has been said during the miting de avance, emails started going around, trying to convince students about their cause, one more time.

And what makes this interesting is that these are, in my opinion at least, written outside what the campaign warrants. These listings play on the advantage that these are more personal and more heartfelt – something they hope the students would see, beyond the usual complaints that the prescribed campaign techniques are robotic.