Election Predictor 2008: MySpace is YourSpace
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Happy Tuesday Predictors!
Today marks the one-week countdown date until E-Day. How tingly are you? We hope you’ve been tracking through the site via the homepage to scroll through the most recent polls.
Once upon a time, before there was a Facebook, there was a land called MySpace. This social networking site still is a wealth of information for all music-related searches & faux-friendships. Until now-ish MySpace hasn’t ventured into the Canuckosphere of election related content.
Be sure to take a boo at ‘Impact Canada’s MySpace profile for a quirky Ceeb-studio-interview video, two mini-polls and creeping options through their friend network. MySpace/Imact Canada’s PM ‘candidate’ Gabe Carini has a fun banter-exchange with the Search Engine host Jesse Brown in this clip. Check out the entire interview & enjoy the interesting exchange between the ego-riffic caracature that is Carini & the super-thoughtful’n'tech-sa
Interesting to note that even on this youth-driven social media network, the ‘poll’ asking users who they are voting for presents similar results as ‘mainstream’ polls throughout the campaign, albeit a tighter race for the Grits: Conservatives with 33.8%; Liberals with 31.3%; NDP with 12% & Other 22.9%. In terms of MySpace visitors’ most important issues, it was equally surprising in its mainstream-ness: The Economy ranked #1 with 60.5%; The Environment with 19.8%; Health Care received 15.2% of votes & Arts Funding a paltry 4.4% of click-throughs.
Now if we here in Predictor HQ had OUR digi-druthers, we’d be scrolling through a beaver’n'mountie clip-art filled version of this American MySpace institution, MyDebates…
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What Yankee techie tool or toy are you missing for your Canadian campaign experience?