Meetup group size for popular candidates
December 2nd, 2007
I saw a post on Digg that caught my eye, and thought that this might be another way to gauge the amount of hardcore supporters each popular candidate has. I picked the following:
- Ron Paul
- Dennis Kucinich
- Barack Obama
- Hillary Clinton
- Rudy Giuliani
- Mitt Romney
- Mike Huckabee
- Fred Thompson
- John Edwards
- Mike Gravel
- John McCain
Now, you would think that the number of hardcore supporters should correlate nicely with the number of voters turning out in the primaries since one should think that anyone in a Meetup group would go vote come primary day. But, sadly, by the looks of it very few of the supporters of the “top-tier” Republican candidates are enthusiastic enough to join a Meetup group. I wonder why since this would help their campaigns immensely. Here’s the result:
Maybe they’re all just using a different site? Let me know what you think.
