Does President Obama owe his place in history to Social Media?

Consider these facts about the 2008 Presidential Election, taken from socialnomics by Erik Qualman:


* Obama raised a record amount of money for a Presidential campaign
   The total was $660 million, allowing him to outspend McCain nearly 3-to-1
   92% of the donations to the Obama campaign were in sums of less than $100


* Obama had over 3.1 million fans on his Facebook page
   Add "Pennsylvania for Obama" and the top-20 pages: the total tops 5 million fans
   McCain had 614,000 fans on his Facebook page
   The next highest fan page was only 1,700 fans on a page for wife, Cindy McCain

* Consider the total views for Obama via YouTube:
   Over 110 million views
   An estimated 14.5 million hours of viewing on YouTube
   Estimated cost to purchase in commercial time?  $47 million


Interesting.  See polling question to your right or add your comment below.


Any Old Dog looking to learn New Tricks will find Erik Qualman's socialnomics interesting reading (see Blog Archive - in the Doghouse video for February 22, 2011 blog post)


Thanks for sharing 71 seconds of your day,
Smitty