Saturday, November 08, 2008
Post-election baby-eating roundup
An earlier post tracked the election by how many times "[candidate name] eats babies" appeared on the Intertubes (via Google). It was posted shortly after Palin was selected as McCain's VP nominee, and so, she had very few hits. How things have changed:
McCain-eats-babies: 2340 (up x4.95)
Obama-eats-babies: 85000 (up x107)
Palin-eats-babies: 1910 (up x955)
Biden-eats-babies: 22 (up x5.5)
Well, except for Biden. He made so little of an impression that he didn't even eat triple-digits worth of babies.
Obama and McCain had head starts over their running mates, but boy did Obama chow down in the three months since we last visited this topic. The largest increase factor, though, was Palin's, at almost 1000x higher than her August numbers.
What does it mean? I'd go out on a limb and guess: very little.
McCain-eats-babies: 2340 (up x4.95)
Obama-eats-babies: 85000 (up x107)
Palin-eats-babies: 1910 (up x955)
Biden-eats-babies: 22 (up x5.5)
Well, except for Biden. He made so little of an impression that he didn't even eat triple-digits worth of babies.
Obama and McCain had head starts over their running mates, but boy did Obama chow down in the three months since we last visited this topic. The largest increase factor, though, was Palin's, at almost 1000x higher than her August numbers.
What does it mean? I'd go out on a limb and guess: very little.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Candidates eat babies!
And now for something completely different...
Now that we know who will be the running mates on both the Obama and McCain tickets, here's an unscientific and unrepresentative way of figuring out how they're doing (at least in notoriety) via Google search:
McCain-eats-babies: 472 results.
Obama-eats-babies: 791 results.
and for VP:
Palin-eats-babies: 2 results.
Biden-eats-babies: 4 results.
Note that, when the announcement was first made, "Palin-eats-babies" had 0 results. (Update: For an explanation of why you need the dashes, see the third comment).
Now that we know who will be the running mates on both the Obama and McCain tickets, here's an unscientific and unrepresentative way of figuring out how they're doing (at least in notoriety) via Google search:
McCain-eats-babies: 472 results.
Obama-eats-babies: 791 results.
and for VP:
Palin-eats-babies: 2 results.
Biden-eats-babies: 4 results.
Note that, when the announcement was first made, "Palin-eats-babies" had 0 results. (Update: For an explanation of why you need the dashes, see the third comment).
Monday, March 26, 2007
Shhh... Don't tell Andrew Sullivan...
From Andrew Sullivan's reaction to the JTS announcement that they will knowingly admit and ordain gays and lesbians:
Should anyone tell him that Conservative Judaism is a liberal denomination?
Here's an eloquent, profound and conservative defense of inclusion (emph is his)
Should anyone tell him that Conservative Judaism is a liberal denomination?
Labels: conservative judaism, gay, lesbian, oops, politics
