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MySpace community votes for Obama, Paul
http://www.news.com.au ^ | 1/4/08 | correspondents in Washington

Posted on 01/03/2008 6:42:29 AM PST by tmp02

DEMOCRAT Barack Obama and Republican Ron Paul were selected by members of the MySpace community as their parties' 2008 US presidential candidates.

With the Iowa caucuses looming, MySpace's count of more than 150,000 virtual votes showed Obama on top with 46 per cent of the vote, trailed by Hillary Clinton (31 per cent) and John Edwards (eight per cent).

MySpace, which dubbed its own exercise "the Nation's First Presidential Primary", said Republicans picked Ron Paul with 37 per cent of ballots, followed by Rudy Giuliani (18 per cent) and Mike Huckabee (16 per cent).

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; myspace; obama; primaries; ronpaul; youthvote
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1 posted on 01/03/2008 6:42:31 AM PST by tmp02
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Good thing most of the members of the MySpace community are too young to vote.


2 posted on 01/03/2008 6:44:14 AM PST by HoosierHawk
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To: tmp02
Space cadets will vote for idiots.

No surprise.

3 posted on 01/03/2008 6:44:16 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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Let’s hope there is NEVER on-line voting for any public office.


4 posted on 01/03/2008 6:45:31 AM PST by BenLurkin
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Yale Daily News, In campus-wide poll, Obama eclipses former Eli Clinton has the undergraduates behind Obama too.
5 posted on 01/03/2008 6:46:07 AM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: tmp02

Good thing 13 year old girls can’t vote. :)


6 posted on 01/03/2008 6:46:25 AM PST by PureSolace (God save us all)
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To: PureSolace; All

Your are right! 13 year old girls can’t vote, but usually listen to what their parents would vote for - discussion on the dinner table.


7 posted on 01/03/2008 6:48:35 AM PST by tmp02
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This is my personal opinion: People who post personal pages at My Space and similar sites aren’t very bright, generally, or else live in a state of ignorance. They’re giving out perssonal information about themselves to the world, whether they realize it or not.
With such intelligence, what does it say that the MySpacers support Obama and Paul?


8 posted on 01/03/2008 6:50:49 AM PST by Clara Lou (Thompson '08)
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I’m curious how did Ron Paul get a sway over so many young and college people?


9 posted on 01/03/2008 6:51:36 AM PST by Santa Fe_Conservative
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Having a young one in college, it’s my understanding that “Facebook” is all the rage, for now.


10 posted on 01/03/2008 6:54:25 AM PST by HoosierHawk
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To: tmp02

Myspace = idiots.


11 posted on 01/03/2008 6:55:31 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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It was the college students that liked his message and then started supporting him with websites. I heard one guy say that in a US Constitution and Law class that the professor on the first day said that the were not going to use the Constitution for study. Does that made any sense? When RP was asked to go to Michigan State and other Univer. there was a large amount of people that attended. It has seemed to snowball since then.


12 posted on 01/03/2008 6:56:31 AM PST by tmp02
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To: HoosierHawk

I have a MySpace page and cast my first ballot for Nixon. In this particular balloting, I voted for Moonbat Ron as a joke. Guess I shoulda paid more attention, huh?


13 posted on 01/03/2008 6:57:49 AM PST by CholeraJoe ("At last my arm is complete!" Sweeney Todd)
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To: HoosierHawk
Good thing most of the members of the MySpace community are too young to vote.

And too lazy. It takes a little more effort and actually walk into a voting booth than to sit behind a keyboard and spam polls.
14 posted on 01/03/2008 6:58:23 AM PST by rideharddiefast
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"Republicans picked Ron Paul with 37 per cent of ballots..."

Those aren't "republicans". They are mostly Leftist loons who are drawn to loons like Ron Paul- "the doctor". If Al- Gore was running, they'd vote for him. If that other loon (the failure of a car maker) who always runs as an independant runs again, he'll split the vote between Ron Paul and Osama bin Barrack.

What a joke this "news" story is.

15 posted on 01/03/2008 6:59:08 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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Funny, I got spammed by a ronpaul myspace page, and if myspace has ANY connection with reality, then it seems there are a whole LOT of cross-dressers for ronpaul.


16 posted on 01/03/2008 6:59:27 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Hunter 2008)
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To: Nathan Zachary

According to the lawn signs in my neighborhood, they are the same “republicans” who had Kerry signs in 2004 and who have had No War signs since 2001.


17 posted on 01/03/2008 7:00:50 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Hunter 2008)
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To: CholeraJoe

Oops, didn’t mean to offend.


18 posted on 01/03/2008 7:01:21 AM PST by HoosierHawk
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To: HoosierHawk
"Good thing most of the members of the MySpace community are too young to vote."

99% of myspace users are also leftist loons, still in the process of being brainwashed by Leftist loon school teachers and the "musicians" bombarding them with their "save the world with your daddy's money (but pay us $150 fir a concert ticket first)" political dribble thy pass off as "music".

19 posted on 01/03/2008 7:02:48 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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Wow. My space, a really reliable indication of the political will of the country. LOL
20 posted on 01/03/2008 7:04:28 AM PST by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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