Maddowblog tweeted this morning:
Your help needed. Our search of Team Christine found mostly out-of-staters. You? http://bit.ly/... #O'Donnell
There's the minor typo (Twitter hash tags can't have special characters, so O'Donnell just showed up as #O), but I found the question interesting and, having time on my hands, I decided to give it a quick spin.
First, I grabbed the 71 pages, using a mildly tedious "option click, click" technique on the "next" button on the TeamChristine page. Basically, I started on page 1, downloaded the HTML file for page 2 and then went to page 2, downloaded the HTML for page 3 and then went to page 3, etc. I tried a more elegant (and efficient) curl script, but that was borked because of scripting on their end (I ended up with the same names, over and over). I ended up with 71 pages of HTML and used a quick perl script to extract the links to the individual pages, as there was a consistent "tab-tab-open link" technique that was only used on the links to the individual pages themselves.
That gave me a giant list of URLs to those direct pages. Now I got to use my more efficient curl script to pull down the individiual pages. I scanned through the pages looking for the "member_detail" tag, which was only used in the line that gave the gender and hometown.
Boom, giant list. The genders and towns were on the line below the name, so I didn't recover them and, honestly, I prefer to have the names redacted. So, without further ado, the people on Team Christine. (EDIT: to keep this clean, I moved the giant wall of text out. You can find it here)
The summary:
1470 people in total, though 29 of those were not accessible at the time (either server error or other glitch), so the following numbers are out of 1441:
973 men (67%), 344 women (24%) and 124 people who chose not to list a gender.
103 people who chose not to list a hometown or state.
32 people from foreign countries, though some of that may just be errors in choosing from the drop-down menu.
245 people from Delaware (17.0% of the total).
121 people from Texas, 105 from California, 66 from FL.
No one from New Mexico, but every other state appears to have a representative.
The results show that, despite her current desire to keep this election just in the Delaware media, Christine O'Donnell gets the vast majority of her on-line support from out of state. Even if we assume that the 103 people who were not listed all live in Delaware, you end up with less than a quarter of the total "Team Christine" team from Delaware. It's also noteworthy that, despite her stagecraft (look at the people behind her), her on-line support crew is primarily male (or choosing to appear as male). The stats for "just Delaware" look similar to the overall gender breakdown (153 male, 62%; 75 female, 31%; 17 not specified).
In the end, I realize these numbers may not be of huge consequence. More than anything else, this is a fun little intellectual exercise for me and a chance to answer a question posed by MaddowBlog.
Disclaimer: on-line statistics are not necessarily scientific, of course, and people may be lying about their location for some reason. Any errors are completely accidental and will be fixed as quickly as possible.