The deluge of racist jokes referring to her brown skin tone on Monday is just the beginning of darker days ahead, upcoming Philippine Senator Nancy Binay said hours after partial results indicate she is headed for the Upper Chamber.

"Today is just the beginning of worst days to come ... I know that whatever explanation I will give, people will still try to find something negative about me," the 40-year-old eldest daughter of the Philippine vice president said.

One such brickbat thrown her way even before Nancy, who has so far 12 million votes and in fifth place, online blogs calling her poll victory a manifestation of the Philippines being a stupid country because voters picked her, who has been an OJT the past two decades, as legislator.

"The overwhelming victory of a self-professed on-the-job trainee-cum Senator in the recently held election in the Philippines cemented the country's fate," cites the satire blog depicting itself as a Time magazine content and citing a Marilou Martin as its news director.

And the skin tone insults indeed poured on Twitter and other social media sites as Nancy cemented her place in history as "the first black senator" of the republic, one tweeter wrote.

The puns are becoming more creative, using popular consumer products as take off point. Parodying a commercial for a breakfast cereal, Jstn tweeted, "Once there was a girl named Nancy Binay who walked into a field of wheat and POOF! It became Koko Crunch!"

Another said seeing the dusky lady attired in orange top brings her images of Ovaltine.

John Davis Mangubat tweeted in Pilipino, "Is it not that the mother is the light of the home? How come Nancy Binay is the shadow of the home?"

In defense of the coloured jokes, Kim Patrick Pasia pointed out that "People aren't hating on Nancy Binay because of her color. They h8 her because she's not fit for the job. Insulting her color is just a bonus."

Pauline Gaerlan agreed with his observation that "People are so mean about Nancy Binay's color" but agreed that "their jokes are so witty, it's really hard to not laugh."

Time blamed the more than 11 million Filipinos who voted for the VP's daughter for the contributing to the Philippines's overall stupidity rating index whom she believes are the same people with no access to the Internet to witness the lambasting their candidate is currently receiving.

Ms Martin appears to be partly right on the one because Binay was likely voted to power by the poor residents of Makati who has benefitted from the 20-plus years of rule of her parents and brother in the city that hosts the country's financial district.

Poor Makati residents whose kids get free school uniforms, bags and supplies, who enjoy health benefits in good medical institutions and get other perks not available in other towns in Metro Manila probably believe these benefits will expand to other cities and towns of the country if more Binays would be in power.

Her younger brother and sister won as reelectionist mayor and representative of Makati City.

But then, electing people with little political experience and education is not new to the Philippines.

It has elected a housewife before as president, a B movie actor also as president, several tinseltown denizens as senators (who belong to the so-called silent majority) and a boxer as congressman.

Some succeeded, like the country's first female president, others were booted out of office or vanished into oblivion.

Other Twitter members have accepted the inevitable, that Nancy Binay and 11 other candidates would be proclaimed by the Commission on Election before the week ends and are willing to give the greenhorn a chance to prove her worth.

Binay said she looks forward to begin her work in the Senate alongside new and old legislators, but admitted she is intimidated by the Senate president Juan Ponce-Enrile and feisty Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago.

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