Politicians Trail Faith Hill on YouTube
Technology Daily's Michael Martinez reports that it’s not likely any political candidates will be less graceful in defeat this week than country music diva Faith Hill at a recent awards show -- but some of them are closing in on her supremacy on the popular file video-sharing site YouTube.
Clips of Hill melting down after her loss at the Country Music Awards earlier this week still top the list of the most watched videos on the site. But a video accusing the campaign of Sen. George Allen, R-Va., of placing automated telephone calls to suppress Democratic votes is steadily climbing up the YouTube charts.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the video had been viewed more than 64,000 times. The FBI has launched an investigation into the source of the calls. Only a few spots behind the anti-Allen clip is a video of Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, struggling to operate an optical-scan voting machine. It will most likely take a Herculean effort to overtake Hill for the dubious YouTube throne-- videos inspired by her gaffe currently occupy six of the seven top spots.
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