For some reason I've recently embarked on the project of aggregating a bunch of data on the popularity of presidential primary candidates on social networking and futures trading sites. You can check it out here; the question of whether or not this is completely useless is an exercise left to the reader. Personally I think that the exact vote counts will be proportional to each candidates' number of Myspace friends.
Obama is winning the YouTube and Myspace wars; Giuliani watches too much To Catch a Predator and is the only candidate stodgy enough to make his Myspace friends-only.If I have the time, I'll add more data sources and candidates, set things up so the data updates automatically, and show trends from day-to-day. For now, current data should be updated once or twice a day.
Slate is also keeping track of futures data, and with pretty graphs.
-Ben | Comments
| Topics: US politics, Tech junk, Presidential Primary 2008 Indicators
