Ron Paul’s Meetup Support
If you just go by the number of people that have joined Meetup groups, Ron Paul leading the pack of presidential hopefuls, both Republican and Democrat. Here are just some of the numbers to give you an idea.
- Ron Paul 2008
29,810 Members in 740 Meetup Groups, 4,511 waiting for a Meetup Group
Barack Obama
4,039 Members in 70 Meetup Groups, 1,520 waiting for a Meetup Group
Dennis Kucinich
1,373 Members in 42 Meetup Groups, 2,459 waiting for a Meetup Group
Hillary Rodham Clinton
851 Members in 28 Meetup Groups, 1,074 waiting for a Meetup Group
Now only Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich have a “Meetup” logo prominently displayed on their pages so that could be the reason that Clinton and Obama don’t have as high of membership. However, even all the members combined is a pittance compared to Howard Dean’s Meetup support of over 140,000 in 2003.
By mid-November, the Howard Dean group on Meetup would have more than 140,000 members, though Meetup would matter less.
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