27.7.08 Political profile, as measured by Google
If Google mentions are an indicator of how much impact you are having on the global dialogue, then here are how the various political leaders or candidates are doing (names entered in quotes).
Notes: in the US figures, the sitting president has been added for comparison. No adjustment has been made for namesakes, different spellings, etc. (giving Australian senator Bob Brown, the UK Democratic Unionist Party’s Peter Robinson, the Respect Coalition’s Linda Smith, Northern Ireland’s Alliance Party’s David Ford and New Zealand Alliance co-leaders Kay Murray and Andrew McKenzie more than one might expect). As I am unsure of the leadership of the various green parties in the UK, they have been omitted from the count. First- through third-ranked candidates marked in parentheses. New Zealand Jim Anderton 123,000 Larry Baldock 4,930 Helen Clark 1,050,000 (1) Peter Dunne 151,000 Taito Phillip Field 13,200 Jeanette Fitzsimons 65,900 Rodney Hide 65,800 John Key 220,000 (2) Andrew McKenzie 54,700 Kay Murray 11,500 Russel Norman 37,200 Winston Peters 196,000 (3) Pita Sharples 19,600 Tariana Turia 39,300 USA Chuck Baldwin 275,000 Bob Barr 780,000 George W. Bush 56,200,000 John McCain 39,600,000 (2) Cynthia McKinney 819,000 (3) Barack Obama 62,900,000 (1) UK Gerry Adams 645,000 Gordon Brown 11,700,000 (1) David Cameron 3,160,000 (2) Nick Clegg 370,000 (3—see notes) Mark Durkan 51,100 Reg Empey 38,500 Nigel Farage 69,900 David Ford 618,000 Robin Harper 36,800 Alison Johnson 4,510 Ieuan Wyn Jones 41,300 Dawn Purvis 5,260 Peter Robinson 1,310,000 Alex Salmond 352,000 Linda Smith 508,000 Australia Bob Brown 1,010,000 (3—see notes) Steve Fielding 24,800 Brendan Nelson 283,000 (2—see notes) Kevin Rudd 2,570,000 (1) Warren Truss 73,900 One could do a similar measure using national leaders as a proxy for global influence. Posted by Jack Yan, 04:56 Comments:
That's very interesting - and confirms my theory that John McCain is just under four times as interesting as Gordon Brown.
By the way I had my banking done by Samantha Powell - she's awesome! # posted by Matthew Plummer: 7/27/2008 06:14:00 AM
Amazing, isn’t it, to be served by Miss New Zealand?!
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A few more figures to sink your teeth into, Matt, this time on foreign leaders. I putin Putin as well to compare him with Medvedev—the president whose name Hillary Clinton calls ‘Or whatever’. 56,200,000 George W. Bush 18,200,000 Nicolas Sarkozy 11,700,000 Gordon Brown 8,370,000 Vladimir Putin 8,260,000 Angela Merkel 7,940,000 Silvio Berlusconi 4,160,000 Pervez Musharraf 3,840,000 Luiz Inácio 3,780,000 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 3,590,000 Hu Jintao 3,550,000 Felipe Calderón 3,190,000 Lech Kaczynski 2,600,000 Hamid Karzai 2,570,000 Kevin Rudd 2,410,000 Stephen Harper 2,310,000 Manmohan Singh 1,500,000 Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono 1,050,000 Helen Clark 936,000 Fredrik Reinfeldt 743,000 Yasuo Fukuda 667,000 Nuri al-Maliki 601,000 Dmitry Medvedev 367,000 Ma Ying-jeou 259,000 Umaru Yar’Adua 69,800 Fakhruddin Ahmed Links to this post:
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