Jun 20, 2007
Myspace for Presidents
Not really surprising that out of the 2008 Presidential Candidates the Democrats are leading what in my estimation is the most important polling metric, the Myspace friend count. Democrats have always been slightly hipper…or had more time to waste on Myspace.
Barak Obama 113270
Hilary Clinton 50364
John Edwards 40566
Now what is really surprising is that Ron Paul, a libertarian running as a Republican, is nowhere on the “official” polls, but hugely popular on the internet. I thought it odd that McCain was ahead of him but then realized the McCain-Myspace debacle of a few months ago probably got McCain a lot of unintentional “friends,” fudging the numbers. Plus, Paul is smoking McCain on Facebook, which might say something interesting about younger voters, and he has more Youtube and Meetup subscribers than any other candidate, Elephant or Donkey. “Dr. No” as supporters lovingly refer to him, is definitely getting the Howard Dean style grass-roots-internet-monster momentum going. Good thing we all know how that can turn out.
John McCain 37451
Ron Paul 33904
Mitt Romney 25273
Fred Thompson 6070
Rudy Guliani (profile set to private!)
Finally, a way to make my voting decision easier! Just see who has the most friends or the coolest comments. Its that simple. No more trying to figure out what they stand for or what they’ve done in the past. No more boring shit. That should be one of their headlines “No more boring shit!”
Also, what’s up with the horribly done, black around the car? Was there really something on that green lawn that we shouldn’t see? Did you do that?
I didn’t even notice the bad photoshopping.
I like the idea of a candidate that campaigns with, “I’m number one on myspace, bitch!”