23 August 2007

In which I introduce a new index of candidate support

Barack, Barack, Barack! How many times have I told you not to say things like this, eh?

Barack Obama had to discuss insanity with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show didn't he? This had to get me thinking about how to rank the candidates by a Google search for their name + the word insane didn't it? So here are the results of the first Yank in London Candidate Insanity Ranking Analysis (CIRA). I take each candidate's hit count and calculate it as a percentage of the party's total.

A few notes. The Democrats get a lot more hits than their Republican opposite numbers despite the, in my opinion, greater and more obvious insanity of some of the Republican contenders. I have also including, even though their candidacies are not announced Al Gore, Fred Thompson, Newt Gingrich and, just for fun, Alan Keyes.

For the Democrats:

Al Gore 28.0%
Hillary Clinton 21.2%
Barack Obama 14.4%
John Edwards 14.3%
Bill Richardson 5.8%
Joe Biden 5.5%
Dennis Kucinich 5.4%
Mike Gravel 2.9%
Chris Dodd 2.3%


For the Republicans:

John McCain 18.5%
Ron Paul 15.7%
Mitt Romney 12.5%
Rudy Giuliani 11.8%
Fred Thompson 9.6%
Newt Gingrich 8.9%
Duncan Hunter 6.4%
Sam Brownback 5.0%
Tom Tancredo 4.9%
Mike Huckabee 4.8%
Alan Keyes 1.9%

The only real surprises were Tancredo and Keyes not ranking higher.

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