NPR's show, On the Media, had the founder and CEO of CafePress on this weekend. CafePress, is the place where you can upload your own designs for T-shirts, hats, posters, etc. According to the CEO, GW Bush shirts were more popular than John Kerry in the past election cycle and we all know what happened there.
The CEO felt that T-shirt sales was an indicator of the enthusiasm of supporters. If that's an indicator, John McCain is in deep trouble. Obama shirts are outselling McCain by a huge margin. Some might attribute this to the younger supporters for Obama, but the Bush anecdote puts that somewhat in question.
And in this election we can also judge by the number of 'friends' each candidate has in the SocialSphere. (copyright, and trademark hereby relinquished)
According to TechCrunch, McCain is way behind Obama on both MySpace and Facebook.
In an attempt to shore up it's position in the online world the McCain campaign just relaunched it's online presence with a full private community. Better late than never? I'm not sure.
One thing is for sure. The first clue that Sarah Palin would be the VP came when someone made extensive edits to her Wikipedia page a day before the announcement.
See More here - TechCrunch - McCainSpace Relaunches
| |
McCain |
Obama
|
% Diff
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| Facebook |
226,000 |
1,400,000
|
625%
|
| MySpace |
66,665 |
467,800
|
700%
|