Following the success of the dedicated sites for the French and Spanish general elections we have launched a new site to cover the Italian elections of 13 and 14 April. With just one month to go our Italian colleague Vito De Lucia will give full coverage on the buzz trends of this election.

Please visit the new website: http://www.elezioni-politiche-2008.com/

Hillary seems to be catching up after the Texas and Ohio pirmaries. Obama seemed to be driving towards his candidacy, but as the final draws nearer, the race to become the democratic candidate is as close as it has been. Buzztrends different sources confirm this, as wellas the upward trend of Hillary as can be seen in the charts from AttentioBlogs, Moreover News and YouTube below (click to enlarge the image).

The question is what makes the vote again swing Hillary's way?

With two strong candidates for the democratic candidacy and a tight race , the question dooms on what grounds will the democratic party eventually choose their candidate. Sure, Obama is all for change, but then again who isn't? Hillary is a woman, Barack is a black man, in either case an argument to be 'for' or 'against'. 

So the next question is, what is behind the outer appearances and slogans. What are the different topics and stances that may swing the vote one way or the other. It has been much argued that there are not too many real differences in views and preferred policies.

Buzztrend has gone out to analyse if there are real differences, by making and following topic profiles from different sources and comparing them. The results are ... fully confirming the thought that there is little between these two candidates.

Geert Wilders, right wing dutch politician and leader of the PVV (Freedom Party) is the most popular dutch politician on YouTube. Already more than four times the visibility of any other dutch politician, his popularity seems ever increasing over the past few months.

His long awaited and much debated but seen by no-one Islam movie could play a significant role in the high YouTube attention.