The Phony Campaign

2007-10-31 Update

I don't have the slightest idea what's going on here:

Query StringHit CountChange Since
2007-10-27
"Barack Obama" phony909,000+538,000
"Hillary Clinton" phony676,000+84,000
"Ron Paul" phony668,000+80,000
"John Edwards" phony616,000+40,000
"Mitt Romney" phony503,000+111,000
"John McCain" phony458,000+79,000
"Rudy Giuliani" phony404,000+71,000
"Fred Thompson" phony397,000+24,000
"Mike Huckabee" phony227,000+60,000
"Dennis Kucinich" phony183,000+25,000

Senator Obama managed to double his hits in a mere four days, jumping him from seventh place to a commanding lead. That's unprecedented. What happened? I don't know. I'm not going to read all 909,000 hits to find out either.

Although Rush's "phony soldiers" still turns up in a lot of the hits, that's clearly on the decline. Obama takes some phony collateral damage from this Brian Stelter piece:

Stephen Colbert's presidential candidacy may be phony, but his supporters are very real.
Why? Because a Facebook group titled "1,000,000 Strong for Stephen T Colbert" has more than a million members, as opposed to Obama's "1 Million Strong Group" which has (according to this), a mere 392,000 members.

Or maybe it's his canoodling with that gospel singer who was gay, but now isn't, thanks to Jesus? This writer at the hard-left "Black Agenda Report" is pretty put out:

Barack Obama seems to believe that his personal charm can resolve the myriad contradictions of his presidential campaign. A phony "anti-war" candidate who wants to vastly enlarge the war machine, a constitutional lawyer who needs Rev. Jesse Jackson to remind him that something awful happened in Jena, Louisiana - Obama's disconnect from any actual constituency becomes more visible by the day.
Ooh, that's harsh! Well, whatever the cause, Senator Obama is, at least temporarily, the Phony Candidate to beat.

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