Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan's Google keyword word cloud for the latest week shows Guangzhao Palace and Shen Boyang. (provided by readers)
The Taipei mayoral election has entered a head-to-head battle. After last week setting a new high for Taiwan’s political figure online this year, the Democratic Progressive Party’s Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang’s voice continued to rise this week and he released Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan, Green Camp Analysis shows that the Chiang camp's smear card of "making mistakes every step of the way" has made Chiang deeply involved in controversies such as municipal affairs and debates. The negative voice is close to 60%. Instead of being regarded as a "blue camp hen", Chiang can only chase Shen Boyang's progress.
The latest public opinion data from the Democratic Progressive Party: Shen Boyang’s 2.299 million comments are ahead of Jiang Wanan’s 1.636 million comments
According to the public opinion data within the Democratic Progressive Party from October 5 to 11, the Taipei mayoral election has attracted great attention on the Internet. Shen Boyang leads Chiang Wanan with 2.299064 votes by a wide margin, with 1.636444 votes. In terms of favorability, Shen's positive voice was 29%, negative 42.1%, and his emotional value was negative 13.1%; Jiang Wanan's positive voice was only 12.1%, negative as high as 57%, and his emotional value was negative 44.9%.
"The political offense and defense led by the Chiang camp has repeatedly become a boomerang"
Party insiders pointed out that the popular keywords related to Jiang Wanan included Guangzhao Palace, Shen Boyang, municipal issues, political debates, and tree felling. Jiang Wanan not only failed to become a "hen" as the Kuomintang expected, but also failed to inspire any of his fellow parties. In the discussion on general selection, the focus of the topic was instead affected by the Shen Boyang and Guangzhao Palace incident, which showed that public attention was still focused on municipal supervision. The political offense and defense led by the Chiang camp repeatedly became a boomerang, and Shen Boyang's voice spilled over to Chiang Wanan.
Party insiders bluntly said that the Chiang camp's smear campaign was "step by step, and every step was wrong." Every move was seen through and counterattacked. The smear campaign against "distributing drugs" triggered a backlash from professional groups and they hurriedly changed the campaign to "abolition of death." They also made a sudden move to relocate Songshan Airport, which was not only a slap in the face. He and the party's candidates for Penghu County Magistrate couldn't stand it, and even slapped Li Sichuan's bus route plan. The campaign song he launched also fell into infringement and plagiarism. Even the Wanhua Guangzhao Palace was constantly surrounded by ocean currents, so it was natural that he could not raise his positive voice.
Party insiders emphasized that Shen Boyang not only continued to raise his voice, but also never stopped deploying land wars. Not only did street soapboxes and market sweeps continue, but "Great Ocean Current" car sweeps were also carried out. On the other hand, Chiang Wanan's political views were just like the past three years of governance. From smoke-free cities to nutritious lunches, he only talked big words but did not plan carefully. Mistakes were made as soon as they were launched. "The same is true for municipal administration and the same is true for elections." Now we can only follow Shen Boyang's rhythm.
Ruan Junda warns: Prevent Lanying’s negative slander against Shen from being transferred to closed groups and circulated
Ruan Junda, director of the New Media Center of the Democratic Progressive Party, warned that the smear campaign by the Chiang camp and the Kuomintang has indeed increased Shen Boyang’s negative voice by about 10%. He should continue to target his character and even personality in the future. The team must stabilize its position and not can be led away; in addition, the morale of Blue Camp supporters on the Internet is relatively low and the rate of expressing opinions is low. This does not mean that they do not support Jiang Wanan or will not vote. It is still necessary to prevent negative smears against Shen from being transferred to closed groups such as LINE.
Chiang Wanan fired back today (11th). The city government has been accelerating the promotion of various municipal projects and proposing political achievements and relevant political opinions. However, opponents have continued to obstruct it and even deliberately stopped Taipei City from moving forward by spreading rumors. (Photo by reporter Chen Zhiqu)
