The Enthusiasm Gap Between Obama and McCain
How much more enthusiastic is support for Barack Obama than support for John McCain?
The following graph from the CafePress Meter tracks sales of pro-Obama items and pro-McCain items as a share of all sales of Election 2008 items (shirts, bumper stickers, buttons etc.) at all CafePress shops, not just our own. Here’s the trend from November to now:
Right now, there are many more people excited about Barack Obama than there are people excited about John McCain.
“Right now, there are many more people excited about Barack Obama than there are people excited about John McCain.” This isn’t a total fabrication per se but very misleading. You cite cafepress as your resource? They are practically Scott Rasmussen now days aren’t they? Thats two made up stories just today.
CafePress is the leading print-on-demand printer of political materials on the internet, offering literally millions of designs. Pardonnez moi if the Obama items are selling like hotcakes while the McCain items simply are not. Of course they aren’t a polling firm; I never claimed they were. They are also not a presidential primary or a Thompson’s gazelle.
Its still not a poll…maybe it indicates that the wealthy people who still have jobs and money are willing to buy those items. People who are voting for Obama are financially better off (Other than your radiostation). You could come to that conclusion just as easily as “people are more excited” about whoever. Good post!
You could. But these are not refrigerators, they’re cheap items we’re talking about: $3.95, $2.99. The excitement required to make a purchase is more active and sustained than the feeling one reports when passively called at home by a polling organization. You could also conclude that people who answer polls are more likely to be people who stay at home. Polls are no more magical than sales statistics. That’s why it’s useful to look at a lot of measurements of an idea or question. This is one of them. My reading of the stuff at pollingreport.com shows, by the way, more enthusiasm for Obama than for McCain.
Then quote pollingreports.com not tigerbeats magazine. 3.95 is a gallon of gas… as bad as the economy, jobs and fuel prices are (according to Obama) better save up. I guess that graph does prove the excitement over Obama…that or the stupidity of the buyers. Also Jim pollingreport.com doesn’t show nearly the difference in “excitement” though I couldn’t find the excitement poll, please link the ‘excitement’ poll. You should also note the cafepress graph of products created i.e. offered. Nice made up story, you’re on your way to the New York Times buddy!
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/buy/elections08_meter
Fella, that link is in the post already.
I’m beginning to think that for you “made up” is synonymous with “piece of information I do not like.”
I don’t trust Gallup. what about pollster.com or realclearpolitics.com?
Won’t allow me to link to correct page I guess. Clink on products created. You are probably bright enough to have figured that out fella. No witty response to the cost of the items vs. gas? Also couldn’t find data to support your pricing range. Please link that with your “excitement” poll from pollingreport.com.
Obviously I allowed you to do it, since you’ve done it. Yep, there isn’t even excitement among the creator community. Yep, I understand you’re talking about baselines, but that only makes sense if you assume a random selection process. No, there’s no witty response to the cost of items vs. gas. Visit the same site you’ve already visited — cafepress.com — and nose around to find the typical price of a button, bumper sticker, etc..
When I said “Won’t allow me…” I didn’t mean you! It was the cafepharma website. My goodness your either very dense or very egotistical. “Jim won’t let me.!!!ARRGGHH!” HAHAHA!
But I regress, you made up the story. The data supplied does not even come close to representing what you say it does. Must be embarrassing so soon after you asked me to point out you making shit up and bam, here it is. So only people that like bumper stickers and buttons are excited about Obama? What about t-shirt consumers? Still no excitement poll from pollingreport.com?
Blah, blah blah blah.