The tandems for 2010 look like a showdown of campus colors

The tickets for the 2010 elections have taken shape in such a way that it seems the voters will be in for a UAAP-sort of spectacle. It will be Maroon vs Green vs Blue (and we don't know what the color is for the last tandem of a high school dropout and a lawyer).

Nacionalista Party presidential bet Manny Villar, a University of the Philippines graduate, has gotten himself a running mate, Loren Legarda, who is also a UP alumna. The team-up will be announced Tuesday afternoon at the old Laurel Mansion in Mandaluyong City, which Villar bought from the family of the NP founder.

Villar earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration from the state university; Legarda graduated with a degree in broadcast communication.

Last Friday, Lakas-Kampi-CMD standard-bearer Gibo Teodoro, who studied commerce at the De La Salle University, announced his vice presidential pick, former Optical Media Board chair Edu Manzano, who is also a Green Archer. (Teodoro later studied law in UP and in Harvard Law School.)

The Liberal Party ticket, meanwhile, is headed by products of the Ateneo de Manila. Noynoy Aquino was a Blue Eagle from grade school to college, earning a degree in economics. VP aspirant Mar Roxas finished his elementary and secondary studies in Ateneo, before moving on to the Wharton School of Economics at the University in Pennsylvania.

As for the fourth tandem--the Partido ng Masang Pilipino's Erap Estrada and Jojo Binay--we can't pinpoint yet what color their backgrounds and interests blend into. Estrada was a dropout from Ateneo high school, while Binay was a UP law graduate. In that case, blue and maroon combined may just be too dark to be attractive.

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