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About Shale Campaigns

All that’s about the elections – from the campaigns, to the voting, to the results, and everything we can catch in between – will be indexed here.

For General Election coverage during the last three years, please click on the links above. You can also visit the thread going on at PinoyExchange to get into the discussion and speculation, and get quickies and behind-the-scene updates on Twitter.

• 31 March 2009: Four years later
  Niko Batallones wraps up the coverage, for the very last time, by calling for vigilance.
• 27 March 2009: Friday night is results night
  Aimee Chua takes the presidency as Santugon splits the EB, slightly edges the EXECOM and grabs a majority on the batches.
• 23 March 2009: Many versions, no answers
  Niko Batallones talks about the battle for who fought for priority status reinstatement first, and wonders whether anything will come out of it.
• 22 March 2009: Issues for the man in the middle
  Adette Razon talks to COMELEC commissioner Jacob Wilson Lee about the issues faced by the folks that oversee the elections.
• 21 March 2009: Is there another cliché that best describes this?
  Niko Batallones watches this year’s miting de avance, and picks out the highlights from an otherwise seemingly ordinary affair.
• 20 March 2009: Betting on a cultural change
  Niko Batallones picks apart Santugon’s platform, and wonders whether they can back up their goal of changing the Student Council’s attitude.
• 19 March 2009: Their overhaul never disappeared
  Niko Batallones picks apart Tapat’s platform, and determines that their plan to radically change the Student Council is still at the center.
• 18 March 2009: Some things we learned from the fringes
  Niko Batallones talks about the things he’s learned as the campaigns get underway, and the challenges with getting his hands on them.
• 16 March 2009: The assembly presidentiable weigh-in
  Adette Razon gives her spin on this year’s candidates for the college assembly presidencies.
• 15 March 2009: Cue transformation, part four
  Niko Batallones basically rambles about what his candidate friends are thinking, or what could be going on in everybody’s heads as campaigns go in full swing.
• 6 March 2009: Popcorn ready?
  Niko Batallones talks about how this year’s slated evolved, and how he figured them out – or not.
• 15 February 2009: Out of retirement
  Niko Batallones indulges himself with an article on this coverage’s purported impact, and the reasons why he brought it back despite closing it last year.

The folks behind the scenes

Niko Batallones graduated from the De La Salle University in 2008 with a degree in Communication Arts, and currently works as a writer for an American entertainment website. In his own words, he works as an “outsourced writer,” something he isn’t exactly fond of.

Adette Razon graduated from the De La Salle University with a degree in Computer Science, and is currently taking up her post-graduate degree in the same university. She was a one-time Legislative Assembly representative for CATCH 2T9, and never thought she’d be a contributor for Shale Campaigns.

Also helping with the coverage: Carlo Cruz, Carmel Puertollano, Kim Batallones, Jayvee Sacramento, Leslie Chew, Monica Escalona, and the handful of people who have asked for anonymity.