The KMT finished its telephone surveys for the Taipei City, Tainan City, and Kaohsiung City mayoral nominations last week. They did not release the numbers, but here are the general results.
Hao Longbin 郝龍斌 won in Taipei City and will be nominated soon. This surprises no one.
In Tainan City Guo Tiancai 郭添財 beat Li Quanjiao 李全教, but only by about 3%. Xie Longjie 謝龍介 was a distant third. Since this is so close, the KMT will try to negotiate a compromise between the two leaders. If the negotiations yield no results, it may try another round of surveys with just these two candidates.
In Kaohsiung, Huang Zhaoshun 黃昭順 won. Lin Yishi 林益世 trailed by about 5%, and Su Yinggui 蘇盈貴 was third. The KMT will try negotiations or a second round among the top three.
So Tainan and Kaohsiung remain unresolved.
To me, the most interesting comment was from one of the losers in Kaohsiung. Hou Caifeng 侯彩鳳 remarked that the results were basically what she expected. After all, Huang is the only candidate who is actively campaigning. Which makes me ask: Why? Why aren’t any of the others campaigning? The DPP candidates are trying like hell, and have been doing so for several months. In contrast, two of the KMT candidates only announced they would run a week or two before the surveys, and Lai Fengwei 賴峰偉 even announced his candidacy while he was in Penghu. Of course there are close ties between Penghu and Kaohsiung, but he couldn’t even be bothered to travel to Kaohsiung? Why didn’t the KMT candidates (other than Huang) exert any effort?
Frozen Garlic 