In view of the 4th of November election in the US, Buzztrend launches the BT Blogometer. The meter to be regularly updated, will indicate the blog visibility of the two cadidates Barack Obama and John MCain.

The blogometer will be presented without comment or analysis and will basically inform you about the current status in the blog visibility of the candidates.

Our first blogometer is presented in the next graph (click to enlarge).

As we have seen in our coverage of other elections (reported on in other articles on this site), there is a strong correlation between our measurements of social media and the traditional opnion pollers and effective results of elections.

For the race for the US democratic presidency candidature we have analysed Buzztrend results against the benchmark of Gallup. We have used the data from Gallup extensive coverage of the race and recalculated both data sets to the relative measurements (between Clinton and Barack).

The graphs (click to enlarge) below show the result of that analysis: