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Technorati poll: why Hillary Clinton leads the pack

This blog is proud to announce the results of its first personally commissioned (and fully automated) blogging relevance poll for the Big Three among the Democratic candidates! Yes, that’s right: I singlehandedly consulted the Technorati oracle to find out who’s been making the biggest waves among the interwebs, and measured the results along the most authoritative blogs!

w00t!!!one!!1!

Behold the not-so-surprising results:

Well, that settles that. The number of daily posts mentioning Hillary Clinton clearly outranks those mentioning Barack Obama, which in turn thumps those mentioning John Edwards. But, that’s a merely quantitative approach of course (optionally, insert other gratuitous weaselly and semi-honest PC disclaimer here, while I point and mercilessly laugh) so let’s take a look at the number of mentions of those three in authoritative blogs. Surely this will make a dramatic difference!

Well, no.

• 136,559 results for Hillary Clinton
• 77,662 results for Barack Obama
• 58,406 results for John Edwards

Actually, the REAL news here in this post is the proud worldwide first announcement of nv1962’s comprehensive ironclad law governing elections in any year that has the numbers 0, 2, 8 and 0 in it, hereby officially baptized as nv1962’s Campaign Waterboarding Clause: if you smack a sufficiently large group of people over the head often and savagely enough with random and meaningless “political ads” that convey “facts” with the intent to “disparage” a given candidate, while holding up other “facts” that prove the pluses of the “good” one, you’ll end up with a statistical tie in the polls. Those blessed with little exposure to such “political ads” will surprise even the most hardened political “expert” by heeding the gut instinct that goes with the first impression.

Ergo, ties in NH and IA, and a gaping hole separating #1 and #2 everywhere else.

Q.E.D.W.T.F.O.M.G.