by Jax · 3/19/2008 04:57:00 PM ET



The Jed Report's keeping track of Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" viewership on Youtube and doing a good job of crunching the numbers and comparing the math.

As of 4pm EST, I counted more than 1.23 million views on just one version of the speech posted by the Obama campaign. There are another 60,000+ views on a second version, and an additional 1100 or so if you add up the views on the speech broken down into 5 separate parts.

Obama's the consummate Youtube candidate. When was the last time a political speech - and a 37 minute speech at that - generated so much traffic online? We take for granted how online video's evolved in the past 5 years, but I remember when watching anything online meant suffering through a choppy slideshow - a virtual buffering bonanza! Now you can expect to catch anything you missed on TV online in absolutely comparable quality. And - if you want - you can watch it on your own time without the context of someone else's punditry.

How refreshing.

I'm not foolish enough to expect or suggest online video's going to put TV out of business, but if Youtube (and its competitors) didn't exist and you weren't in a position to catch Obama's speech live, the best you'd be able to get back in the day would have been clips on the news smothered in analysis or, simply, a written transcript. Obama's words are inspirational, but his delivery makes them powerful.

I'm working on trying to dig up some numbers on how many people tuned in for the speech live yesterday. But in the interim, I'd feel comfortable assuming the online traffic has certainly matched - if not surpassed - that stat.

Some politicians have learned the hard way how Youtube can take down a candidate. This election cycle's going to teach them how integral online video can be in lifting one up.


http://www.americablog.com/2008/03/o...3-million.html

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Probably people watching it ten times because its so funny. I like the part where he says his grandma was a racist crack whore or something like that.

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Patriot, you make baby Reagan cry.

Is there any record of those watching on his website? Its the 1st place I went and I think it was up before most, if not all, of the Youtube videos.

Not crack whore! Just a regular whore, she did it for money not crack!! I don't know how you didn't know that, I thought everyone did!!!!

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Im a Tarte, what! you want some of this?

people say Obama called his grandmother a racist, then they go ahead and call her a whore? give a person an inch...

I gave him an inch and he took back a foot. Understand this about his grandmothers quips from the turn of the century, that is they way people spoke back then, it is not they way we speak now, and Wright would be old enough to be Obama's father, not his grandfather, and Wright is a hateful racist man.

To Obama's comment about disowning either grandmother or Wright;

You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family.

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Ought to read "Life and How to Survive It"- these people have alot 'behind the screen' imo- its written by Robin Skynner and John Cleese; good duo and very informative/funny.

Bronco, can you pick those who inspire you? Can you really pick the qualities in a person that makes you befriend them? What if you find those qualities are meshed with qualities you don't like? Must you sacrifice that friendship, or can't you accept a person's failings?

Racism still happens- black to white and white to black- being in denial doesn't help anything. Obama simply doesn't let this resmorseful fact consume him, as Wright was in the highlighted sermons I've seen.

I agree with the above statement completely and let me add;

You can choose your friends and
You can pick your nose but
You can't choose to pick your friend's nose.

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"We should Invade Their Countries, Kill Their Leaders, and Convert Them to Christianity." Ann Coulter
There is a fine line between a subtle nuance and an extreme dichotomy! - PatriotNews

I'm sure Adolf Hitler has some things that were inspiring, but in no way would I consider befriending him. By not walking away, Obama endorses it, and that will be the majorities opinion.

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Cheney is the second executive officer to shoot someone in the face and chest. Clinton was the first.