The techPresident site has figures showing that Obama has nearly twice as many friends as second-place Clinton, although the latter has been climbing in friends recently. Some techie observers note that Hillary's sudden jump is mostly due to the page having been down for a bit.
MySpace friends
| Democrats | # of friends | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Obama |  | 11.8% | 43003 |
| Clinton | | 92.7% | 23428 |
| Edwards | | 4.0% | 11593 |
| Vilsack | | 4.1% | 1347 |
| Kucinich | | 13.6% | 1078 |
| Richardson |  | -0.5% | 661 |
| Biden | | 18.6% | 510 |
| Dodd | | 15.4% | 172 |
| % change in last week | |||
| Republicans | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul | | 17.9% | 2501 |
| Romney | | 529.8% | 1373 |
| McCain | | 5.4% | 1356 |
| Tancredo | | 3.3% | 1051 |
| Giuliani | | 18.2% | 637 |
| Huckabee | | 14.9% | 385 |
| Brownback | | 0.6% | 166 |
| % change in last week | |||
Updated Feb 18, 2007
The Republicans are far behind in MySpace popularity which is not surprising as over the years the Web has become the progressive counter to the conservative's talk radio.
Whether social network and blog popularity will convert to votes is of course an important question.
There are those who believe that the Democratic wave that occurred in the 2006 election was assisted by the Web's increasingly progressive outlook.
The range of people who use the internet has broadened considerably, and a very significant percentage of people now depend on the internet for most of their news, including political news.
As to whether Obama's internet popularity can compete with Clinton's money, this question takes for granted that Obama will not be highly competitive with Hillary in raising money. The internet is a proven source of nearly unlimited funds, although in Barack's case we are still waiting for reports that his support is indeed translating into dollars.
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