Much as I like Obama, I can't help thinking that reporting these numbers is a bad idea, because it gives them significance that they don't deserve. Online activity is not a reliable indicator of popularity. It would be amazingly easy for an unscrupulous person to rent out a little time on a bot net to get a favorable ratio... even easier than it was in 1998, when Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf won People's Most Beautiful Person online contest.