The YouTube Primary Race

I love YouTube, that video sharing website where users can upload, view and share silly video clips.  Created in mid-February 2005, it has forever changed media.  Democratizing and internationalizing it.  

So, who is winning the YouTube primary race?

This short clip has 1,040,681 views.

This long clip has had 3,296,912 views.

This gem has had a whopping 6,403,693 views.

While this one has 4,934,202.

Do you notice something?  Overwhelmingly, YouTube users are pro-Obama and anti-Hillary.  

Do a search for either one and see the difference...

Barack Obama YouTube Search vs Hillary Clinton YouTube Search

Well, you can easily dismiss this as saying that only young people use YouTube.

But aren't young voters the bedrock for future growth and longevity of the progressive movement?

What do you think?

•  The voice of the future!

  by aaraujo on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 05:21:51 PM PDT

•  how long theyve been up is a factor

  Im guessing you posted these from most recent to oldest? Pretty amazing that Bosnia video already has over a million hits.

  by Randolph06 on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 05:25:19 PM PDT

  •  Right from Youtube

    went to YouTube and clicked on Most Viewed Videos...

    http://www.youtube.com/...

    by aaraujo on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 05:28:49 PM PDT

•  It's not just The YouTube.

  The InterTubes (TM), generally.  Obama has understood from the beginning that the intertubes are changing the way information travels.  HRC is stuck in a 90's MSM world.

  by mrchumchum on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 05:26:06 PM PDT

  •  and the GOP is stuck in the 1980's

    direct mail and text E-Mail

    by aaraujo on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 05:30:22 PM PDT

    •  I wouldn't be so sure,

      did you see the Raining McCain video?

      by otheruser on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 05:40:32 PM PDT

      •  LOL

        I doubt the RNC commissioned that one

        by aaraujo on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 05:48:12 PM PDT

  •  What are these tubes you speak of?

    And can they become full?

    by otheruser on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 05:38:34 PM PDT

    •  The internet is not a truck!

      Beware of filling the tubes!

      by mrchumchum on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 05:46:46 PM PDT

•  Hillary supporters don't have time for Youtube

  They're too busy working their 4th job.

  by OCS89 on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 05:27:28 PM PDT

  •  or ducking sniper fire!

    by aaraujo on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 05:31:57 PM PDT

•  HRC is the machine candidate, while

  You tube is a medium that average people can use.  Same for the internet.  This is the force that put cash in Obama's campaign coffers, just as HRC thought she'd locked all the big donors and lobbyists up.

  by al75 on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 05:28:06 PM PDT

•  Obama inspired my first youtube video

  I'm an Obama supporter and while I've been viewing youtube videos since the site launched, I hadn't posted any videos until a couple of weeks ago.  So far I've posted two. Check this out to see why I am proud to support Obama.

  http://www.youtube.com/...

  Lisa

  by LisaSurfing on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 05:30:35 PM PDT

  •  WOW - Great stuff!

    Imagine have over 500 people in your living room watching your homemade video.

    that is what YouTube enables.

    It's pretty amazing if you stop and think about it

    by aaraujo on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 05:35:08 PM PDT

  •  that's a great video

    Thanks for sharing it.

    by davidkc on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 05:38:45 PM PDT

•  Let's not forget this one--

  at a million and a half views and counting:

  --and this one by the same people, mentioned on the conventional TV (the outertubes?)

  by Egghead on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 06:09:10 PM PDT

  •  LOL!!

    by aaraujo on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 06:15:52 PM PDT