
In response to the United Daily News' Taipei mayoral poll results, Tung Chi-sen criticized participants of Operation Blue Bird and triggered online criticism
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A poll released by Lianhe Daily showed that Shen Boyang's support was 45%, leading Jiang Wanan's 41%. Dong Zhisen made controversial remarks on the show regarding the poll results.
The Taipei mayoral election has attracted much attention from all walks of life. Seeing that even the United Daily News had polled that Democratic Progressive Party candidate Shen Boyang had won over the current mayor Chiang Wanan, many supporters of the blue camp were quite devastated. Recently, Deep Blue's famous mouthpiece Dong Zhisen scolded him on a show because "Blue Birds are all beasts" and will bully others, so many people dare not express their opinions. After the public opinion was exposed, it caused an uproar on the Internet.
A poll of Taipei mayors recently released by "United Daily News" showed that Shen Boyang's support was 45% and Chiang Wanan's 41%, sparking heated discussions. Dong Zhisen alleged on the political commentary program "Big News" yesterday (29th) that because Blue Bird was "good at bullying others" in the past, many people did not want to quarrel or conflict with them. When this kind of atmosphere exists, they will choose not to answer poll calls. Even a media like "United Daily News", which is generally considered to be pro-blue, "You said you are "United Daily News" , how do I know if it is true or false? Then if you can call my home phone number, my phone number will be locked by you. In case you harass me in the future, or if you use my phone number for any purpose, it will be like this, so many people are unwilling to answer. When you do the poll, you will find that the Green Camp's response rate is very high, and every poll will produce this result. "
He went on to criticize, "The Bluebirds are just a bunch of beasts. Beasts are beasts. There is nothing to explain. It is not easy to choose against the beasts because the logic, thinking, and methods will be different. But the good forces in society must be the majority. It is just whether they want to come out. Many people are unwilling to come out, but voting can change the situation in Taiwan."
His speech was later shared on Threads, and netizens criticized, "I can't believe that a century-old party uses the word beast to describe the Taiwanese people who do not support the Kuomintang." Do we, the Kuomintang, have any grudges?", "The way they use words and words is really unbelievably ugly", "People who have no moral integrity will always shoulder the role of defeating the election, everyone knows", "Why do you talk like this! I am really angry!", "Now I am not only "dirty" but also a "beast"... Sure enough, they will win even if they vote alone."
The "United Daily News" poll was conducted from October 20 to 22 and 25. It successfully interviewed 1,115 adults registered in Taipei City, and 264 people refused to be interviewed. At a 95% confidence level, the sampling error was within plus or minus 3.0 percentage points. The survey uses Taipei City's residential and mobile phone dual-telephone records as the parent population for random sampling. It improves the shortcomings of traditional local phone sampling by adding samples of mobile phone users who cannot be reached by local calls. It is weighted according to the gender, age and administrative district structure of voters over 20 years old in Taipei City. The source of the survey funding is the "United Daily News".

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