I’ve been keeping track of primary presidential candidates’ Facebook profiles, taking a periodic tracking of their number of “supporters” (i.e. “friends”). This is similar to the “MySpace primaries” project at the Web Candidate 2.0 blog. Beyond periodic updates, I’m also noting their numbers in an Excel spreadsheet. There are some problems: Some candidates still don’t have Facebook profiles. Some have made their profiles private (meaning, I can’t view how many friends they have w/o “supporting” them first). Still, the results are interesting:
Democrats
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Republicans
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So far it looks like a clean sweep for the Democrats. But w/ Giuliani only now getting into the race, anything could happen (though I’m not sure why his profile—assume it is his profile—is set to private). Again, I’m using only official, personal profiles—not Facebook groups.
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