You can look up the hard numbers of “friends” each campaign has on Facebook or MySpace here on techPresident, and you can track the ups and downs of the candidates on the blogs, or see how their web traffic is doing. But here are some of the more esoteric and intriguing nuggets of meta-data I’ve found lying around the web in the last few days:
-# of upcoming McCain events happening within a 25 mile radius of Orlando, Florida: 8
-# of upcoming Obama events happening within a 25-mile radius of Orlando: 84
-# of upcoming McCain events within a 25-mile radius of Dayton, Ohio: 8
-# of upcoming Obama events within a 25-mile radius of Dayton: 57
-# of photos posted to Flickr since September 1, 2008 referring to, or tagged with, the word “Obama”: 49,256
-# of photos in that same period referring to, or tagged with “McCain”: 16,611
-# of hits on the phrase “voting for Obama” on Google blog search: 22,713
-# of hits on the phrase “voting for McCain” on Google blog search: 16,023
-Average user rating of McCain’s campaign videos on YouTube until September 2008: 3.5 stars (out of 5) or higher
-Average user rating of McCain’s campaign videos since the beginning of September 2008: 3 or lower (hat tip to TubeMogul)
-Total number of video views of McCain’s channel on YouTube in the last month: 4.6 million
-Total number of video views of Obama’s channel: 11.4 million
-Number of times Obama used the word pie at a rally in West Philadelphia on October 11: 15
October 13, 2008