New poll places DPP's Su ahead of Ma by 2 percent

Results of the latest TVBS opinion poll, announced yesterday, show that 38 percent of the voters would vote for Su, while 36 percent would support Ma in the country's 2012 presidential election, should Su, not DPP chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen, be pitched against Ma in the race.

However, in a race between Ma and Tsai, Ma would garner 39 percent of the votes, versus Tsai's 37 percent.

The DPP has not chosen its presidential candidate. Both Su and Tsai have entered their names in the party's primary leading up to the election. A clear challenger to Ma within the KMT camp has not emerged.

However, according to another opinion poll, Ma would lose regardless of if his opponent is Su or Tsai.

Results of a Taiwan Brain Trust opinion poll shows that Su would beat Ma by six percentage points, while Tsai would prevail over Ma by four percentage points.

Results of this poll show that in a race between Tsai and Ma, Tsai would win 40.7 percent of the votes, compared to Ma's 36.7 percent, and in a race between Su and Ma, Su would garner 37.7 percent of the votes, compared to Ma's 31.7 percent.

Both Su and Tsai have been low-key about the polls. DPP sources have said the KMT has been manipulating opinion polls recently in an attempt to sway the DPP primary in its favor. However, the KMT has countered that it has no interest, whatsoever, in the DPP primary.

Su Jun-bin, director of the KMT's Cultural Promulgation Commission, yesterday called on the DPP's chairwoman not to try and boost her position in her party at the expense of the KMT, adding that the KMT's top priority at the moment is the success of its administration.

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