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February 22, 2007
Is Barack your friend?
By Chris Clonen
Could MySpace be the new political barometer for measuring a candidate’s chances of taking the White House in 2008? Yesterday, I spotted an interesting article on stating that a recent “poll” put Barack Obama ahead of Hillary Clinton in the run for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. I had to click because I thought this was incredible news. To my surprise, Barack was ahead all right, but not in the traditional sense — Barack had more MySpace friends than Hillary.
The article referred to TechPresident, a site that currently measures the amount of MySpace friends a presidential candidate has accumulated. The site is updated regularly, contains graphs to help explain a candidate’s “friendship” trends, and includes links to the presidential hopefuls’ MySpace pages. There is even a blog that posts news informing the reader how many candidates have web sites, who in showbiz is endorsing whom, and tracks Technorati for blog posts mentioning the candidates. One post informed me that John Edwards is in Second Life.
Could a candidate’s popularity on MySpace predict the next president of the United States? Time will tell. We could see an evolution in political forecasting.
Posted by Alicia Dorset at February 22, 2007 05:01 PM
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I wonder how many of Barak's Myspace friends are even of voting age?
Posted by: COD at February 22, 2007 07:04 PM
