Friday February 15th, 2008 12:18 PM by BHDC Staff
Filed under: Internet, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Mike Gravel
Filed under: Internet, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Mike Gravel
Big Head DC first alerted you to the vast discrepancy between friends of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on Digg.com in December and since that time, Obama’s numbers have continued to greatly outnumber Hillary’s. Obama currently has 12,031 online friends while Hillary only has 1,497 supporters and trails fringe Democratic candidate Mike Gravel by over 1,300.
Is something fishy going on at Digg.com headquarters?
Not a surprise. Geeks only see women on World of Warcraft and they are afraid of a woman president.
I have noticed that they are systematically removing her Digg friends, and they are giving a lower precedence to people who Digg her stories.
It couldn’t possibly be because Ron Paul appeals to vastly more users on Digg than both Obama and Clinton?
Why would Ron Paul supporters bury anti-Obama posts? Don’t you think a Republican would love to see a Democrat suffer with a scandal?
The tools who run digg have done the same thing to paul supporters.
barack obama mike huckabee vs machine
huckabee obama:
we understand your disgust.
subversion of democracy.
know this:
gravel kucinich paul nader
will fight any ticket
with clinton or mccain on it.
your eyes & ears are open…
Mike Gravel Dennis Kucinich Dr Ron Paul Ralph Nader
united by truth elicit fear smear blacklist.
Too many lies,
democracy rising democracy now.
Rage against the machine.
Honesty compassion intelligence guts.
No more extortion blackmail bribery division.
Divided we fall.
i’ve been paying attention to this for a long time. if you can remember, digg used to be Ron Paul 2008 headquarters. seems like since his chance at the presidency is as good over, they moved to obama. you can’t even put up a regular clinton story, it has to be a negative clinton story, in order for it to get popular.
It’s almost impossible to get out any information on Digg that is not obviously and blatantly ‘Pro-Obama’. It is a shame.
http://newyorkwhitepride.blogspot.com/2008/02/waving-machetes-kenyas-rioters-love.html
http://newyorkwhitepride.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-barack-obama-cant-win-israel-factor.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/31/AR2007033101327.html
I dont see how this should come as a surprise,..digg.com is used because “rigged.com” is already taken. There were actually articles on digg itself as to how digg was being rigged by s select group of users, then again,..much like the current election system is rigged,…
Right, it couldn’t POSSIBLY be because Obama appeals to the core demographics of Digg’s user base (young, left-leaning, educated, more tech-savvy)
Of course Obama will get more Diggs, he has many fans on that site. Maybe if Clinton could get the middle-aged, blue collar working women to use the internet as a tool for activism we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
edited for truth!
Ron Paul…. I had forgotten that name….. Seems that’s all anyone on Digg went on about before they all jumped on the “Obama Wagon.”
Have you heard the story about a candidate having sex with another guy, while using crack cocaine?
“Right, it couldn’t POSSIBLY be because Obama appeals to the core demographics of Digg’s user base (young, left-leaning, educated, more tech-savvy)”
I think left-leaning is the only part of truth in your sentence.
= I’m no McCain fanboy but from the sight of Digg, Obama is some savior and McCain is hardly qualified. Instead of being remotely honest and maybe not slamming each candidate but merely disagreeing and stating that your candidate can do better and how, the extreme slam tactic is always taken. I believe that’s why the democratic party has lost the last few times. People may not see it on the surface but unconsciously everyone knows that if a group is vehemently pushing one candidate it seems fishy. While I don’t think that it is, perception is is what matters when you go behind the curtain to cast your vote. I trust the Obama camp can carry their own weight and fight their own battles without the help of their internet allies. Personally I just want the democrats to win so I don’t have to hear 4 more years of complaining. No matter who wins in the end, the only positive response the American people can give is to back that peoples choice 100% or there will never be unity and animosity will rule between the party lines and the country. I also think that republicans would do a far better job of backing Obama and his administration should they win, then the other way around, and for that reason I may vote for him.
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