I share Manolo’s enthusiasm. Inquirer.net’s Philippine election map offers political junkies (to borrow that familiar blurb on many a box of toys) “hours and hours of fun.”

Serious fun too: The interactive map offers visual proof of a defining quality of Philippine politics, at least as this journalist understands it. Filipinos like to vote. (Corollarily, an election boycott is almost un-Filipino.)

Consider only the most famous instances: Those in the opposition who took part in the 1984 parliamentary elections (”participation without illusion”) and in the 1986 “snap” presidential election had a better grip on what Filipino voters wanted, and thus a better claim to being the electorate’s true representatives.

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