Presidential Candidates - 2008 "Final Four"

Here is some analysis that's helping me narrow my March Madness Final Four, er, Six...

TubeMogul Stats
Republican YouTube views March 2007
(I know, numbers are hard to see, basically Romney was ahead and the total views of any given day of the three combined was around 9K - nothing to write home about I tell ya)


TubeMogul Stats
Democrats YouTube views March 2007
Barrack so out skews this graph it seems just plain silly. TechPresident had thought something was going crazy with his views so don't quote me on these...but if it's right, wow...



So I'm on the phone with my dad telling him I've started a blog (a "wha?"). Anyway, I tell him it's about watching online videos about the Presidential candidates. And he says, "You mean the 2008 election, you have a ways to go no?" Then I say, "Well, not really, you know how now you go into Target right after 4th of July and you start seeing Halloween stuff with the Christmas tree lights in the back? It's like that". I absolutely know where he's coming from but I have to tell you, it's way too late if you start thinking of this stuff by that time. You should basically be in your "Final Four" mode right now if you want to matter diddly squat.

I'm in California and they moved the primaries to I think February. Here you also have to be registered for the party (as I remember) to even be able to vote for a candidate for that party. So I figure I have to do my homework, pick a candidate, register for that party so that I can even vote him/her to be a candidate and then maybe sit back and relax. Because at least in this state, as much as we would like to consider ourselves individuals, the Nov 2008 election, is not as critical the "before" stuff. This notion needs to be more publicized I think. People are just waiting before the final exam and frankly, it's usually too late.

With that in mind, unless I see something just truly amusing, I'm going to stick to watching the top six candidates and what they have to say. No doubt someone is going to argue with me but really, cmon, I'll be the first to be seriously amused if this isn't the list (in no order): Dems: Clinton, Edwards, Obama. Reps: Giuliani, Romney, McCain. I'm just guessing of course.

Fun little heavy hitters Republican vs Democrats comparison, Romney vs. Obama (it's not even fun watching this...). Now keep in mind, Romney has 66 videos posted as of today and Obama has 26.

TubeMogul John Edward's Stats

This is a screen capture of TubeMogul stats for John Edward's YouTube videos. I don't know but my point about the news conference being "big" is spot on (OK, so it didn't take rocket science to figure that out).

If you are into the YouTube, MySpace, Revver, video "thing", you should know TubeMogul. You sign up, it's free, and tada, you get really, really cool charts and info. You can compare across videos, publishers and sites. I just started tracking the candidate's YouTube video viewership so I'll try to remember to keep posting some interesting info...

Hunter, ummm why are you bothering?

Newbie girl here again to talk about a topic that has always plagued me but I've always been too apathetic. But as I've said, this time, I'm trying to care since now I see it probably is important and I've got some kids to think about. Let's talk about these Presidential 08 hopefuls. Off the top of my head without researching and if Jay Leno were to ask Joe Smith off the streets the same question, I'm guessing they'd come up with the same answers. So there's Obama, Clinton, Guliani, Edwards, Romney, McCain, I know there are more but couldn't tell ya who they were. Now let me check the list.... HEY, I'm pretty good! They are all hopefuls, I think I misspelled Giuliani, sorry.

Ok, so my topic... now I realize we're way ahead of the real campaign yada yada but my message to, wait, let me go look up their names.... OK, let me pick on Hunter, my message to you is, umm, why are you bothering? Who are you playing golf with that is still funding your campaign? And I'm guessing there are still many, many more genuinely hopeful Presidents out there. But just picking on unfortunately Hunter, who I'm sure he's a fine fellow, is it that you want to be President next go around and you need your name in now? Let me show you guys a politubing stat from techPresident.com:


Already the "top" names are so beyond their league it's not even funny. And there are many, many, many "top" names actually. More than I would have ever known to blurt out. At the point where Mickey Mouse starts having a better chance of being a write-in candidate, don't you just say, "Well, that was fun, but now back to work..".

Oh, I just saw one of Hunter's videos. I'll post if for you politubers, it's a classic - "VOTE FOR ME, I'll make sure we build us a GREAT BIG OL' WALL smack dab in the middle of Mexico and the US. Just think, it will be so grand, you'll be able to see it aaaaallll the way from the heavens. Now there's a legacy I want to leave my grandbabies with!"

Oh man, now I know why he's in the dust. A wall? You post a low-resolution video of yourself pounding your chest about a wall that will be an ugly scar in the face of American History?

I just don't get it, do you?

Ok, well, at least I can say this is getting easier for me. I don't think Hunter would have my vote.

Hey! This politubing thing just makes it so much easier for me, I don't have to get epileptic attacks watching multi-screens and fly screen-thingy's on any of the news channels.