UDN Poll: 45% Opine DPP Degrades Electoral Ethos by Hiring Cyber Warriors

 UDN Poll: 45% Opine DPP Degrades Electoral Ethos by Hiring Cyber Warriors

Source: UDN

December 10, 2019

With 32 days left before the 2020 presidential election (January 11), the fire of the cyber warrior episode created by Slow Yang has continued to spread. According to the results of the latest opinion poll on the 2020 presidential race conducted by the United Daily News, 53% of the respondents opined that it was serious that political parties hired cyber warriors to exercise spin control, and smeared opponent candidates with fake information, among whom 45% believed that the DPP was the party that hired cyber warriors, while 19% the KMT, and 48% believed that the DPP was the party that smeared its opponent candidates, while 18% the KMT.

In addition, after KMT presidential candidate Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) called on, at the end of last month, his supporters to “refuse to answer pollsters’ questions” or “answer the questions by saying they support Tsai only,” dramatic changes did occur in the support ratings of presidential tickets.

According to the UDN’s latest poll results, among the three tickets, i.e., the DPP’s ticket of Tsai Ing-wen and Lai Ching-te (賴清德), the KMT’s ticket of Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) and Chang San-cheng (張善政), and the People First Party’s ticket of James Soong (宋楚瑜) and Yu Hsiang (余湘), the Tsai-Lai ticket received a 48% support rating, leading over the Han-Chang ticket’s 20% and the Soong-Yu ticket’s 9%. The gap between Tsai and Han in support ratings expanded to 28 from 16 percentage points in mid November, and 23% of the respondents declined to answer or had no opinion, a 5-percentage point increase from mid November. Paradoxically, only 29% of the respondents believed that the Han-Chang ticket indeed fell far behind the Tsai-Lai ticket in support ratings.

The poll results also found that with regard to political party vote, the DPP garnered a 30% support rating, leading over the KMT’s 24%, while as for district legislative races, the DPP also received a 30% support rating, leading the KMT by 4 percentage points.

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