MySpace Community Chooses Barack Obama...

[Hope And Change]

MySpace Community Chooses Barack Obama and Ron Paul as Leading Presidential Candidates in Nation's First Presidential Primary


More than 150,000 Virtual Ballots Tallied Over January 1st and 2nd The Economy/Jobs, the War in Iraq and Health Care Cited as Most Important Issues

By BusinessWire

LOS ANGELES, BUSINESS WIRE -- MySpace, the world's most popular social network, today announced the results of the first presidential primary in 2008, hosted online by the MySpace Impact Channel (http://impact.myspace.com), with Barack Obama and Ron Paul selected by the MySpace community as the preferred democratic and republican presidential candidates, respectively, in the 2008 general election. More than 150,000 MySpace users voiced their choice for the nation's highest office on January 1 and 2 via the MySpace Impact Channel, just days before the Iowa caucus.

"MySpace is proud to be kicking off the New Year by actively engaging millions of Americans in the political process through our first virtual presidential primary," said Jeff Berman, SVP of Public Affairs for MySpace. "The MySpace Generation has spoken and we're eager to see how the candidates will court this important voting demographic."

Key findings from the MySpace Presidential Primary include:

-- Democratic respondents selected Barack Obama, who led with 46% of the vote, followed by Hillary Clinton (31% of the vote) and John Edwards (8% of the vote)

-- Republican respondents selected Ron Paul, who led with 37% of the vote, followed by Rudy Giuliani (18% of the vote) and Mike Huckabee (16% of the vote)

-- 83% of respondents plan to vote in the 2008 primary(1)

-- 91% of respondents plan to vote in the general election(1)

-- The Economy/Jobs, the War in Iraq and Health Care were the most important issues to respondents(1)


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[Snarkturian Clone]

1. If anything, this is a reason NOT to vote for him.

MySpace is the mark of the beast.

[Sulawesi]

2. As an Obama supporter,

I am not sure I put much stake in that, I mean, they also chose Ron Paul.

[glowing]

3. I have a MySpace page, but rarely use it... But some people... especially

teens love it and have to get on it all the time or they have withdrawl... I've seen it happen. How many of those MySpacers can even vote?

[BigDDem]

4. Neat!! I heard Hanna Montana LOVES him!!