Much has been made this week on liberal blogs about the phenomenon that is the Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack) Facebook Group. This pro-Obama group is adding members at the rate of one every three seconds and currently has over 145,000 members (when Adam Conner wrote this diary on Thursday night, there were 90,000 memberS). This is truly an unprecedented political phenomenon on Facebook that is evidence of serious grassroots support for Obama among young, online voters.
Well, they say imitation is the highest form of flattery, so you know John McCain’s supporters must really dig how committed Barack Obama’s supporters are. The obligatory John McCain for President - One Million for McCain Facebook Group has been created.
Barack and Hillary both have huge groups going for a million, so it’s time to rally together and show them that McCain is really the best!
John McCain is by far the most qualified candidate for this election — he has the experience that this country needs.
The other groups are large already, so we are going to have to work hard to catch up! Invite all of your friends! If each person gets 10 people a day, we will grow to 1,000 in just 3 days! Let’s do that or more!
Unfortunately for the group’s creators, Peter Landau and Justin Holland, inviting people to join a Facebook group doesn’t actually make them members of the group. People have free will and as of yet, that will has not been expressed in an upsurge of support for McCain.
The group was founded on January 26th and has set a series of goals for itself on a rather short timeline.
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Goals:
100 - 1/26 Today!
500 - 1/28
1,000 - January 28th
10,000 - February 10th
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Note that the group “John McCain for President - One Million for McCain” does not include 1,000,000 members as a goal. It doesn’t even include 100,000 as a goal (though it is a planned milestone, see below). So perhaps this group should have been more appropriately named Ten Thousand for McCain. Note that the group aims to hit the goals of 500 and 1,000 members on the same day. Now that’s thinking big!
The pro-McCain Facebook group just isn’t getting the traction its founders had hoped for. Here’s their tally of milestones as of today.
Milestones: I will keep this up to date
100 - Jan. 26th Great job everyone!! Let’s keep this growing fast!!
500 -
1,000 -
2,000 -
10,000 -
100,000 -
The group currently has 407 members.
Just by way of comparison, here’s the list of goals set out and milestones reached by the Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack) Facebook group.
Created January 16th, 2007
100 - Same day (January 16th) Reached
1000 - (Jan 19th) Reached
10000 - (Jan 26th) Reached
100000 - (Feb 1st) Reached
1000000 - (Feb 5th)
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Its official…100 in less than 1 hour…
1000 in just over 24 hours
10000 reached 6 days ahead of schedule
100000 - 1 week ahead of schedule
One million seems like nothing now… lets make this happen y’all
So, to recap, there’s a movement afoot in support of Barack Obama on Facebook. McCain supporters try to imitate it and, on their third day of existence have not as of yet found a fraction of the success as Obama. I’ll keep an eye on the McCain group and see where it is in one week - maybe it will start to grow, maybe it will stall. I think it will certainly break into the low-thousands, but I would be shocked if it ever has the scale that Obama’s group has reached.
Via Laurin in SC.
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[...] The Right’s Field has some analysis on the McCain Facebook debacle. It’s pretty funny actually. Here’s a part: Well, they say imitation is the highest form of flattery, so you know John McCain’s supporters must really dig how committed Barack Obama’s supporters are. The obligatory John McCain for President - One Million for McCain Facebook Group has been created. [...]
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