A recent Hamilton Staff-Hoy newspaper survey shows that 94-year old presidential candidate Joaquín Balaguer (PRSC) has the highest acceptance rate of all running political candidates. He received 71% favorable opinion of voters in a recent survey. Runner ups are Hipólito Medina (PRD) with 61%, and Danilo Medina with 46%. In the survey, former Vice President Jacinto Peynado received 58% acceptance rate, and Vice President Jaime David Fernández Mirabal received 55%.