Winds of Change?

There are a few more signs out there that voters may be growing weary of "Obamamania"...

Anti-Obama books are flying off the virtual shelves, according to a recent Wall Street Journal story. It speculates that the recent uptick in sales may be a response to the media's apparent infatuation with Obama. Among Amazon's top-selling nonfiction books are Jerome Corsi's The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality (#1), David Fredosso's The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate (#2), and Dick Morris' Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us... and What to Do About It (#9). At Barnes & Noble, the list is almost identical: Corsi (#1), Fredosso (#3), and Morris (#5). Interestingly, not one of the recently published anti-McCain books even cracks the top 100.

And McCain recently passed Obama in another key political arena: YouTube popularity. In the last month, McCain's YouTube channel has amassed more hits (4.9 million) than that of Obama (2.2 million). Among politicians, the next closest are "Kucinich2008" with 200,000 hits and "BobBarr2008" with 135,000. But when it comes to overall hits, it's no contest: Obama trounces McCain, 51 million versus 8 million. Republican Congressman Ron Paul, whose unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign attracted a huge internet following, remains in second with 15 million.

-- Sean Bowditch

2:07 PM ET | 08-12-2008 | permalink

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