Micah Sifry has a follow-up to his recent article at Personal Democracy Forum about how the Democratic presidential candidates as a group are far ahead of the Republican field in online social networking (which I blogged and commented on last week):
After putting up my posts about how the Democratic field as a whole as whupping the Republicans in terms of bottom-up online social network support, I got a lot of interesting feedback. Two e-campaign experts, who have to remain anonymous because they're in the game, one a D and one an R, each suggested that a far more important measure was how the campaigns were doing with local blogs in the early primary states, and that we'll find a lot more Republicans online there. Perhaps that is true, and certainly it's something to look at more closely (chime in if you've already done it!).
Whose ahead in the political blogosphere in the early primary states would seem to be a better indicator of the level of deep, committed support for candidates than how many folks have linked their MySpace profile to some candidate's unofficial page. Bloggers tend to support candidates based on issues rather than who is the media-hyped flavor of the month.
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