The Facebook vote
Simply comparing Facebook fan counts would have been an accurate predictor of the winner in 74% of House races and 81% of Senate races in the United States this week.
For whatever it is thus worth, our federal leaders presently rank as follows.
Stephen Harper. 36,611Michael Ignatieff. 32,676Jack Layton. 31,093Elizabeth May. 7,172Gilles Duceppe. 4,885
Possibly of note: Justin Trudeau has some 26,000 fans.
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