HITTING A NERVE: The Taipei mayor’s popularity quickly fell when respondents were asked about the Taipei Dome, with 60.1 percent disapproving of Ko’s performance
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 22, 2018
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je’s (柯文哲) support rating has surpassed those of Chinese
Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei mayoral candidate Ting Shou-chung (丁守中) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) mayoral candidate Pasuya Yao (姚文智) combined, a poll released yesterday by the Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation showed.
The survey asked respondents who they would vote for if the elections were held tomorrow.
According to the poll, 42.1 percent of respondents said they would vote for Ko, 28.5 percent said they would vote for Ting and 11.6 percent said they would vote for Yao.
The poll found that 2.6 percent said they would vote for one of the two independent candidates, while 15.1 percent said they were undecided, unwilling to vote or refused to answer. [FULL STORY]