IMAGES SHOW PUBLIC’s FOR LENI.

That backing from various sectors – an underdog, volunteerism-driven campaign, public flash mobs and a truth army against disinformation (as Washington Post puts it) – has not been seen before in such magnitude and intensity (partly because of technology) in this country.

How do people choose a leader? Could poll research gauge public sentiment at a given period, which lasts long enough until election day, thus the prospect of a Bongbong win? Or, could voices “roar from island to island, shore to shore” and prompt voters to choose Robredo? Would the “heavens listen” and meddle in Philippine elections?