Obama Outpacing McCain On Web By Miles

Washington Post:

Less than five months before The Big Day -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- national polls show John McCain and Barack Obama locked in a dead heat. The latest CNN poll has Obama at 49 and McCain at 46; the most recent Gallup poll shows Obama at 46 and McCain just a point away.

But on the Web, there's simply no contest: Obama easily trumps McCain.

Obama leads McCain on popular social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube, as measured by sites such as TechPresident.com, a favorite of online political operatives, and the less-known but also valuable Compete.com. On MySpace, Obama leads McCain more than seven-fold; Obama lists 390,279 friends to McCain's 53,259. The gap is almost similar on Facebook. Obama supporters number at 928,905 while McCain's clock in at 139,749. And on YouTube, it's almost as if Obama and McCain operate in two separate layers of the atmosphere. McCain's channel, which has posted 219 videos, has been viewed a little over 4 million times. Obama's channel, which has posted 1,102 videos, has been viewed 51.1 million times.

The Web is like a busy, massive, maze-like grocery store, and Obama has been more effective than McCain in ensuring that he's on various aisle, trying to attract specific demographic groups. Obama was the first candidate, Democratic or Republican, to have a profile on BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com and AsianAve.com, popular social networking sites in the black, Latino and Asian communities, and was also the first to have a profile on On Eons.com, the Facebook for Baby Boomers. Obama's profile on Eons lists 290 friends. McCain, meanwhile, lists 3. This kind of online outreach has been instrumental in Obama's ability to raise millions online in the past few months -- something McCain hasn't matched.

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Comments

[Donnat]

01:33 PM on 06/11/2008

Yeah, BUT
old people don't go on face book but they turn out by the millions on election day. Young people vice versa

[DrRJP]

11:46 AM on 06/11/2008

Until they allow voting for President from a site like MySpace and FaceBook, these numbers have no relation to how a real election will play out.

[Sumocat]

10:07 AM on 06/11/2008

Yeah, but McCain is doing "a Google" for his VP. That puts him a couple notches up on the web scale.

[wbateman]

09:02 AM on 06/11/2008

Was there ever any doubt? McCain just figured out how to program his VCR (not DVD player) last week...


I bet he still has dial-up.

[texastornado]

08:37 AM on 06/11/2008

Those white hard working white workers that didn't finish school that Hillary was bragging about can't figure out how to turn their commodor 20 computer on.

[Tropiholic]

07:55 AM on 06/11/2008

Mcsame is using carrier pigeons, the latest technology known to him.

[Scarllatti]

07:13 AM on 06/11/2008

FIRED UP AND READY TO GO, ATLANTA!!!­!

[loax]

06:49 AM on 06/11/2008

Are you sure McBush even knows what the internet is? Repugnantc­ans are in BIG trouble this year! OBAMA 08

[Scarllatti]

07:14 AM on 06/11/2008

Please this driver McCain to move over to the slow lane. He is slowing down the traffic.

[ramblingjohnny]

03:53 AM on 06/11/2008

McCain is like a Babe in the wood when it come to the internet. Welcome to the 21Th century old man! lollll

[collima]

07:15 AM on 06/11/2008

The video that should sink John McCain's presidenti­al dreams
http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=VjGYb_KtA­eg

[LoloZ]

09:47 AM on 06/11/2008

Yikes, that was scary.

[chlllfactor]

09:53 AM on 06/11/2008

'Course - McCain had another "senior moment" yesterday - he is going to veto all of the "beers" that come bfore him. Oh, and McCain thinks Putin is the president of Germany???­????

[LawSource]

02:25 AM on 06/11/2008

THE LATEST CORRECT POLL NUMBERS……

Gallup Daily: Obama’s Lead Stabilizin­g
Leads McCain 48% to 41% in latest presidenti­al trial heat

http://www­.gallup.co­m/poll/107­791/Gallup­-Daily-Oba­ma-Lead-Ap­pears-Stab­ilize.aspx

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RASMUSSEN REPORT……

June 10, 2008

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidenti­al Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows Barack Obama attracts 48% of the vote while John McCain earns 40%.

http://ras­mussenrepo­rts.com/pu­blic_conte­nt/politic­s/election­_20082/200­8_presiden­tial_elect­ion/daily_­presidenti­al_trackin­g_poll

[lboucher]

02:09 AM on 06/11/2008

http://www­.justsayno­deal.com/i­ndex.html

we are a coalition of millions of Democrats with
one thing in common: NObama

[trish74]

02:17 AM on 06/11/2008

NO progress

[Dustee]

02:31 AM on 06/11/2008

Nobody else.

[donballz]

12:20 AM on 06/11/2008

This article proves, without a shadow of doubt that Facebook is more popular than Myspace. Stop the Presses

[Mike4Obama]

12:01 AM on 06/11/2008

If you haven't yet, I suggest everyone go to www.barack­obama.com and try out the networking features.

Once you are at the web site, click the Find Events button on the right side of the window. From there, enter in your zip, the radius of the search and you can find events occurring in your local communitie­s. Furthermor­e, once you set up an account, you can visit your my.baracko­bama.com page to track your events, blog with your groups you are joined in and invite others to join the web site. It has a facebook type feel to it. Great place.

Voter registrati­on drives have been underway for some time and these are managed by well establishe­d groups. It can be energizing knowing you have the power to create events, teach others what you learn and interact with campaign staffers on a day to day basis.

Have fun folks.

[NTO08]

02:06 AM on 06/11/2008

Thanks for the promotion, Obama campaign staff member...h­ave absolutely NO intention of doing what you say...or ever will...

This merely shows that Obama supporters are Internet purveyors.­..whatever­...but a vast majority of Americans aren't, so what is the point?

[LawSource]

03:08 AM on 06/11/2008

NTO08,

I AM A FORMER Hillary Supporter Now a STAFF MEMBER HERE IN Sunrise Florida FOR the Obama Campaign.

YES WE ARE DOING "EVERY THING" AS LAID-OUT Plus a LOT MORE!! GREAT STUFF!!

[Josselyn]

11:39 PM on 06/10/2008

Uhm, you'd think someone getting paid by The Washington Post could at least get there polling numbers correct, particular­ly when it's in the lead: http://www­.huffingto­npost.com/­2008/06/09­/obama-pol­ls-number-­bump-u_n_1­06160.html
Or maybe that's deliberate­?

[NTO08]

02:09 AM on 06/11/2008

Huffpo is very much following the style of Pravda, which also loved to cherrypick and then color and twist the news to suit the Politburo.­..in this case, the Politburo are the Obamabots.­..

[cobobs]

07:11 AM on 06/11/2008

Oh Yeah! Nothing new for Fixed News consumers and DittoHeads­.

[kellygrrrl]

11:34 PM on 06/10/2008

McLame got a new Cell Phone

http://www­.instructa­bles.com/f­iles/deriv­/F4F/TF6W/­FEX36PJZ/F­4FTF6WFEX3­6PJZ.MEDIU­M.jpg

[Cookie100]

12:43 AM on 06/11/2008

LOL for the old and senile, perfect! O has an IPhone

[NTO08]

02:09 AM on 06/11/2008

Wow...I am impressed.­..NOT!

[Tropiholic]

07:57 AM on 06/11/2008

2 tin cans and a string?