Super Tuesday: Blogosphere predicts McCain & Obama as winners
We chose five different Super Tuesday states to gauge—
We also made an overall prediction using a similar, but untested, method. We measured the sentiment and activity for national blogs. The candidate’s name had to be mentioned within a certain number of words of any one of the Super Tuesday states. The search parameters were necessarily looser than with individual states, but we’re hypothesizing that the “collective intellect” will outweigh any small inconsistencies.
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For a full report on these predictions, detailed analysis and projections for the GOP races for the five states, and a three-month candidate sentiment report jointly researched with Marketing Pilgrim, please download this free pdf file.
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Go Blogosphere. Now let us see how well it works out in real life.
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