Entry into the Moronic Web Lemming Awards
Got an email about this site and simply couldn't believe people would be this stupid...
...in essence it attempts to determine which presidential candidate is "ahead" based solely on how many blog posts have been written about them—positive or negative. Hillary is ahead, but the bulk of the "buzz" (their term for web attention via blog posts) is mostly negative. The 244 blogs on the "Blogs Against Hillary" blogroll would boost that number quite a bit. There is not "Blogs Against Obama" blogroll.
Ron Paul is a somewhat distant second, which surprised me considered the radical nature of some (<== note: I said some) of his supporters. Earlier online polls had to dump him when they saw the results skewed by unethical Paul supporters spamming the polls. I'm not really sure why he's got such obsessive support, unless those Libertarians who chose to stay with the GOP are hoping he'll lend their ideas more distinction and credibility. That would have worked had more of them behaved with distinction and credibility. As it is, his campaign is now stained with the ugly smears of their zealotry. But I also find it interesting that in spite their obsessive behavior, Hillary still beats Paul in "buzz", mainly because she's hated and feared so passionately.
Every election season there are those that want to boil the entire election down to one factor, in spite of the reality that elections are vastly complex events that are effected by a massive amount of factors, rarely allowing one to completely overshadow the rest. What's really humorous is that when, after the election, we find there was an issue that took enough of a lead to have become a pivotal point, it's rare that it was ever predicted, and the talking heads will then spend the next four years trying to claim it actually wasn't, in order to shift focus away from it, lest it once again become too much of a factor.
Posted by Danny Carlton at October 8, 2007 7:39 AM