{"id":381,"date":"2007-12-16T23:45:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T04:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/16\/if-facebook-voted\/"},"modified":"2007-12-16T23:45:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T04:45:20","slug":"if-facebook-voted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/16\/if-facebook-voted\/","title":{"rendered":"If Facebook Voted&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top Presidential candidates, and their current number of supporters on Facebook:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Barack Obama, 174,650<\/li>\n    <li>Hillary Clinton, 56,935<\/li>\n    <li>Ron Paul, 45,906<\/li>\n    <li>John Edwards, 26,255<\/li>\n    <li>Mitt Romney, 23,155<\/li>\n    <li>Fred Thompson, 19,311<\/li>\n    <li>Dennis Kucinich, 18,587<\/li>\n    <li>Mike Huckabee, 17,161<\/li>\n    <li>McCain, 15,320<\/li>\n    <li>Rudy, 13,043<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The numbers are interesting. Obviously, this isn&#8217;t a scientific poll, but I think it&#8217;s useful as a straw poll of where young people come down. And Obama is dominating, with about three times the support of his next rival, Clinton. Ron Paul is close on her heels.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s a huge gap, with Edwards at the front. I&#8217;m somewhat surprised to learn that Romney is right behind him, and even more surprised that Fred Thompson is next on the list. No offense to him, but I&#8217;d never considered him a viable candidate. He just slightly nudged out Kucinich, who&#8217;s about as likely to win as Thompson in my mind. Rudy and McCain, who I&#8217;d thought would be front-runners, are way down at the bottom. (Technically, it&#8217;s not the bottom, but I left off people way down there&#8230; Poor Richardson, who I would vote for in a heartbeat, has 8,272 supporters.)<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we know that young people have the least voters of any age demographic&#8230; But imagine if we changed that this election. I hope to.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Presidential candidates, and their current number of supporters on Facebook: Barack Obama, 174,650 Hillary Clinton, 56,935 Ron Paul, 45,906 John Edwards, 26,255 Mitt Romney, 23,155 Fred Thompson, 19,311 Dennis Kucinich, 18,587 Mike Huckabee, 17,161 McCain, 15,320 Rudy, 13,043 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/16\/if-facebook-voted\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanitarianism","category-interesting","category-obama","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}