It’s official. Barack Obama has way more friends than we do.
A new Web site, TechPresident.com, is keeping track of how many friends each presidential campaign has on MySpace.
Here’s the breakdown as of today:
- Barack Obama: 38,777
Hillary Clinton: 22,054
John Edwards: 11,257
Tom Vilsack: 1,298
Dennis Kucinich: 958
Bill Richardson: 663
Joe Biden: 456
Christopher Dodd: 149
And look! The Republicans are trying too!
- Ron Paul (apparently a TX Rep., news to me): 2,165
John McCain: 1,295
Tom Tancredo: 1,025
Rudy Giuliani: 543
Mike Huckabee: 344
Mitt Romney: 217
Sam Brownback: 168
For the record, everyone should know that Borat of Kazakhstan has 421,238 MySpace friends.
Tila Tequila, the original MySpace “artist” and spammer has 1,670,131 MySpace friends.
Barack Obama has done a great job on Facebook too. The One Million Strong for Barack group is up to 268,205 members. How many of those are from an early primary state? In fact, how many of those folks are not from Illinois? Your guess is as good as mine. But kudos to Team Obama for reaching out to social networks.
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Clark's Popular Too
I was researching this a few weeks ago, and the biggest surprise I had was from Wes Clark’s Securing America group on MySpace. He has 43,975 members in it! I didn’t think that many people even knew who he was. If he ever gets in this race, he’s going to have a decent amount of support already from all these social networking sites.
However, for young people at least, the real indicator is Facebook groups. With MySpace, you can friend whoever you want without actually supporting them. On Facebook, tons of groups specifically supporting a certain candidate for 2008 show an interesting breakdown in support.
I compiled these numbers about 2 weeks ago – since then, Obama’s has grown even higher, but the rest have stayed relatively stable. These are the approximate totals of the various groups that support a candidate:
Candidate Members
Obama 253,000
Edwards* 4,990
Clinton 4,700
Clark* 2,250
Vilsack* 752
Kucinich 720
Biden* 697
Richardson 254
Dodd 120
*Candidate has a sponsored PAC group
(again, this is a few weeks ago – didn’t really feel like counting them all again)
patrick Tue 13 Feb 5:02 PM