Obama picks up buzz share lead
by WonkoKevin
Barack Obama took the lead in Wonkosphere buzz share today, 54 to 45% over John McCain. McCain had held a lead in buzz share since the Republican convention, first peaking at around 65% immediately after Sarah Palin’s speech. It has been 52-48 McCain-Obama for the last week.
Lots of mud being thrown. In terms of the tone of the buzz, liberal bloggers have been very positive as of late on Obama and conservative very negative; conservative and liberal bloggers have a much more similar tone on McCain right now, neutral. The McCain campaign has been moderately negative about Obama in content but the impact is volume–they’re saturating their feeds with Obama material. The Obama campaign still has significantly less to say about McCain in its own feeds, but McCain mentions by Obama have increased noticeably in the past 3 days.
