McCain soars and Huckabee crashes in Wonkosphere by WonkoKevin

John McCain has reached new heights in conservative Wonkosphere buzz, clocking in at 58% yesterday, compared to Romney’s 28%. The race, as far as conservative bloggers are concerned, is down to McCain v. Romney, as they cornered 86% of all their attention. Ditto is happening on the liberal side, with Clinton and Obama accounting for 85% of liberal buzz and 60% of total buzz after Obama’s overwhelming win in South Carolina.

McCain’s 58% is the highest one-day conservative buzz share we have seen this campaign season, beating Ron Paul’s 50% level which he hit in November. Buzz share is a zero-sum game, so if McCain is surging it must mean others are hurting, and indeed they are. Mike Huckabee’s drop is the most shocking, as he’s gone from a respectable 20% ten days ago to 3%.

Three percent! Huckabee’s rode the blogosphere buzz train into the MSM spotlight, so this decline is likely a death march into Ignoredom. Rudy Giuliani, who had spent five days above 10%, fell to 6%, and Ron Paul has been under 10% for the last three weeks. The conservative blogosphere is now McCain’s to lose.

McCain builds big buzz share lead By WonkoKevin

McCain builds big buzz share lead

by WonkoKevin

John McCain built a significant lead in Wonkosphere buzz share over the last 24 hours, leading Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama 28-18%. Part of that came from liberal bloggers–42% of their attention to Republicans was focused on McCain yesterday. Conservative bloggers also focused on McCain strongly. McCain led in conservative buzz share yesterday with 43%, followed by Huckabee (18%), Romney (15%), Giuliani (8%), Paul (7%), Thompson (6%), and Duncan Hunter, who announced he was dropping out, at 5%. Amongst Democrats, Obama led in liberal buzz share at 42%, ahead of Clinton (36%) and Edwards (22%).

What Dr. Dooley doesn't say is that the effect of the McCain Blog Team,

has been HUGE. The McCain Victory08 Team, a group of Bloggers from across the USA, has taken over the Wonkosphere. Great Job Team McCain!!!

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