Political observer and National Sun Yat-sen University professor ChenMauhsiung has argued that Wu Den-yih originally held the upper hand in the election, but lost women's votes as a result of the tape-recording affair. In contrast, the later video merely compounded the dissatisfaction of the electorate, contributing to the DPP gaining control in southern Taiwan.
政治評論家、中山大學教授陳茂雄認為，原本仍佔優勢的吳敦義，因為錄音帶事件流失大量婦女選票，而錄影帶事件更造成選民的反感，而使這一役後，南台灣完全「綠」化。