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The Facebook Index

by Aaron Wherry on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 11:11am - 125 Comments

As of this writing, the group Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament is more popular than all five federal political leaders in this country.

Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament 29,340 members
Stephen Harper 29,323 supporters
Michael Ignatieff 28,673 supporters
Jack Layton 27,690 supporters
Elizabeth May 6,400 supporters
Gilles Duceppe 3,989 supporters

Tags: Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament, Elizabeth May, facebook, Gilles Duceppe, Jack Layton, Michael Ignatieff, Stephen Harper

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http://intensedebate.com/people/s_c_f s_c_f

Yeah, you can poke a million holes in this, it's not a rigorous study. Just throwing some numbers out there for perspective.
http://intensedebate.com/people/s_c_f s_c_f

Good question. Perhaps it's partisanship.
http://intensedebate.com/people/s_c_f s_c_f

Well, yes, when the PM has his own address to the media (ie not an interview), the opposition gets a shot as well.

But when it's an interview, I think it's a little unrealistic. In fact, interviews are not always favourable for the person being interviewed. Also, it's not always easy to line up all party leaders at the same time. I'm sure Iggy can get onto CBC for an interview at any time.
Lord Kitchener's Own

Well, admittedly, I didn't actually do any math on that one. I went to the page, it was at 60,746. I clicked refresh and it was at 60,751. I clicked refresh again, and it went to 60,753. I hit refresh one more time, and it went to 60,758. It was usually more than 3 or 4 every time I hit refresh, but you've got to factor in some time for the page to reload.

As for actual math, it's now at 63,805 (Sorry, 63,820… it went up by 15 as I typed those 8 words). My last post was about 2 hours ago. So 2 hours ago it was at 60,836. Now, it's at 63,860. So, averaged out over the last 120 minutes, the group has added roughly 3000 people. So you're totally right based on the last little while. In the last two hours, it's gone up by about a person every two seconds.

It's still on pace to eclipse the combined pages of Harper, Ignatieff and Layton by early tomorrow morning, and if the pace keeps up it'll be in 6 figures before Friday.

For the record, just before i hit send the group was at 64,253.
Lord Kitchener's Own

Fair enough. I just think your reply to Dennis' over-reaction was itself an overreaction is all.
Lord Kitchener's Own

LOL

I know what you mean there, and lol.
gail

the number of Facebook members is inaccurate we have over 64,000 members and growing. More than the two top parties received in votes. How is that for getting attention maybe elections should be held on facebook at least it would guarantee the numbers.
wafer

gail, it's friggin Facebook, you're a joke
ConservativelyCon

Maybe it's true that any group can get lots of facebook members and that population itself is not significant. But if that's true…

Doesn't this comparison speak volumes??
Current population Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament = 65,164
Current population Canadians For Proroguing Parliament = 89
Lord Kitchener's Own

Yes, but it's the trend line that matters.

The FOR group has gone from 19 to 89, since Wherry's post and those 70 people represent basically almost a quintupling of the group. The AGAINST group has gone up by only a little more than double in the same time (35,824 people). So the people in favour of prorogation are growing their group more than twice as fast as those against. I predict the group in favour of prorogation could indeed hit over 2,500 members before the group against even hits 100,000.
Dakota

"When I'm Super Bored, I Go On Facebook and Join Tons of Pointless Groups" – Facebook Members: 159,280

You're getting closer to catching up to this group Libtards. What a telling stat all those Facebook members are!
freeda people

If you are as sick of the undemocratic ways of the Conservatives as I am you can email them and tell them so. Just copy and paste these email addresses into your mail server and tell them what you think.

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That sure is a huge number of supporters.