We're all set up for massive civil unrest, the kind we're always used to. With gasoline prices rising, and accusations of rampant cheating, Poe's claim that he has "won the elections and they know that" is at least an omen for a fractious six years ahead.

There's even a priest who presented proof of cheating, but really can't say who it came from because he is under the Seal of Confession. That's all very Christian indeed: the transferring guilt and sin under anonymity for redemption and atonement (See "The Passion of the Christ" and Romans 5:6-8).

And, at the very very least, the birth of a new phrase: "vote-shaving". Or, in Tagalog, "kaskas-bawas". Bow.