Posted on 09/25/2007 11:39:50 AM PDT by vietvet67
As the new school year gets fully under way and presidential hopefuls work the young voter circuit via social networking websites, one online group — Facebook’s “Stop Hillary Clinton (One Million Strong AGAINST Hillary)” — is seriously outpacing its pro-candidate rivals in attracting new members.
With more than 418,000 members, Stop Hillary Clinton has now surpassed “Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack)” as the largest group for or against a presidential candidate on Facebook. (The pro-Obama group has 355,000 members.)
The anti-Clinton group is growing at 10 percent per month, said Micah Sifry, co-director of Tech President, a blog group that tracks and studies how political candidates use the Web.
And, while there are dozens of pro-Clinton groups on Facebook, they tend to be much smaller. The two largest — “Hillary Clinton for President — One Million Strong” and “Hillary ’08” — have a combined membership of just fewer than 10,000. When asked if there were any pro-Clinton groups on Facebook comparable in size to Stop Hillary Clinton, Facebook spokesman Matt Hicks said, “I haven’t seen any.”
Political analysts aren’t surprised. Clinton has had a polarizing effect on voters since her days as first lady. “Hillary Clinton is one of the most divisive political figures of our time,” veteran GOP consultant Rick Wilson said. “People feel empowered by the Facebook effect. This group is growing organically. It’s not some sort of Republican plan by Karl Rove in the background.”
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Too late, Obama. The evil “b” word has it sewn up.
Where can I sign up?
Where’s a link to the site? (I wanna join)!
LOL
http://www.facebook.com to sign up.
then, this link has a link to the facebook area. On the right side is a “click to join” text link on the facebook page.
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/unions/read_article.php?topic_id=25725628&union_id=8632&print=1>
See posts 6 & 7..
I just did!
Oh, no?
Thanks!
A million isn’t what it used to be..
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