Obama announces,
Emily's List says it will back Clinton, Dailykos holds its
January straw poll, so I thought I would spice up the pot by offering another metric to gauge the early success of the 2008 Democratic field. Here are the number of results on Google News for each of the 2008 Democratic potentials over the last month:
I didn't do searches for Kerry or Gore, but feel free to post them in the comments. I am particularly stunned by Biden's ability to get press, inching out Edwards and Clinton. Obama is clearly the media rockstar right now. For the sake of comparison,
John McCain comes up with 10,139 results,
Mitt Romney has 5,825, and
Rudy Giuliani has 3,112.
According to
Blog Pulse, during the same time period, here are the results among blogs:
For the sake of comparison,
John McCain has 4,191,
Mitt Romney has 2,243, and
Rudy Giuliani has 1,363.
One problem with conducting blogosphere searches on the 2008 candidates is that, unlike establishment media articles, online candidates are frequently referred to only by their last name during the entirety of a given blog post. This might make these numbers more inaccurate. Then again, the lax restrictions for being included in Google News might make searches there more inaccurate as well. Still, the results seem to fairly clearly indicate that Obama is the buzz leader in both categories, with Clinton and Edwards easily in contention, and Biden surprisingly high. On the Republican side, Romney bests Giuliani in both categories, while McCain is even slightly ahead of Obama. Of course, that will change in just a day or two as Obama's announcement spreads.
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