Obama, Paul virtual top picks in MySpace poll
19 hours ago
WA****NGTON (AFP) — Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Ron Paul were
selected by members
of the online MySpace community as their parties' 2008 presidential
candidates, the site
announced Thursday.
With the Iowa caucuses looming later in the day, MySpace's count of more
than 150,000
virtual votes January 1-2 showed Obama on top with 46 percent of the vote,
trailed by
Hillary Clinton (31 percent) and John Edwards (eight percent).
MySpace, which dubbed its own exercise "the Nation's First Presidential
Primary," said
Republicans picked Ron Paul with 37 percent of ballots, followed by Rudy
Giuliani (18
percent) and Mike Huckabee (16 percent).
Respondents said the economy/jobs, war in Iraq and health care were their
top concerns,
the poll said.
Iowa voters will weigh in Thursday on the longest, most gruelling White
House race in
history, as top hopefuls look to the too-close-to-call caucuses there to
provide momentum
toward a national-level party nomination.
Americans vote November 4 for a new president to follow eight years of
George W. Bush's
Republican administration. After two consecutive terms, he is not eligible
to stand for
reelection.
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