While I too enjoy Facebook, including the use of the status message as a micro-blogging tool, these numbers don't exactly make me think of Facebook as being a powerful constituency that politicians must win over.

I mean, Ron Paul -- RON PAUL, for God's sake -- is outpolling the mainstream candidates. Stop the presses: early adopters are a bit more libertarian than the rest of us. That doesn't mean they've got a prayer of winning.

I fully expect that Facebook will be around in some form ten years from now, but that by then its polling will look a lot more like that of the nation as a whole, because its user base will look more like the nation as a whole.

OT -- Steve, to prove my point made earlier, the ad for Kaplan's book today -- after the election -- no longer uses Hillary's face.
Is that OBVIOUS...or what?

it was a smear job. Yeah, it showed up on lots of other sites, too, but clearly a smear campaign. Too bad. I might have had an interest in Kaplan's book. Not now! I hope no one else will buy it either....given such overt tactics. As if we women are dumb.

Or Sandy -- perhaps the ad people read your and other's comments about the picture and just decided that something that they thought was not controversial was generating the wrong kind of impressions. I just don't know -- but Kaplan is a brilliant, progressive chronicler of the worst excesses of this administration. I think those who read the book will benefit from doing so.

best, steve

work look excellent.Looking forward to hearing more from you!

Now Every single person used the Facebook and twitter for this promotion.Excellent Work