Three out of four Filipinos don't care much about who wins in the US presidential elections November 4. According to the latest survey on Manila-based Social Weather Stations, 76% think it doesn't matter who wins between Barak Obama and John McCain. In 2004, 63% of Filipinos said it did not matter whether George W. Bush or John Kerry won.

SWS surveyed 1,500 respondents between October 24 and 27. 79% of residents of Mindanao, in southern Philippines, were neutral in their preference for Obama or McCain, while in Luzon in the north, it was 78% and 77% in the Visayas region. In Metropolitan Manila, 63% didn;t care who wins in the elections.

Meanwhile, feedback from Filipino-Americans in the US point to a 67% participation rate among that sector in the US voting population. This could be the highest turnout yet in recent electoral history.

US Embassy Maniia is hosting an Election Watch exhibit at the Mall of Asia in Manila tomorrow, Wednesday November 5, as figures from the US counting start piling up on network television. Any visitor at the Mall can try the computer voting system in a mock election. Radio Station DZRH is also conducting a text mock election, hoping to gather some 100,000 text users to participate.