San Francisco: Internet-age users overwhelmingly back Barack Obama for US president, according to a poll at the world s largest social networking website, MySpace said.
Survey data collected during a year of unprecedented online political campaigning and discourse shows that 60 per cent of the millions of eligible voters on MySpace prefer Democratic candidate Obama.
The survey yesterday, which has a three per cent margin of error, shows that only 34 per cent of MySpace users said they were likely to vote for Republican candidate John McCain.
MySpace reports having approximately 77 million active users, some 85 per cent of whom are of legal voting age. Obama and McCain have MySpace profile pages used to convey their messages to online "friends."
"The next president of the United States has a MySpace profile," said MySpace political director Lee Brenner, who declined to predict a winner in the presidential race.
"And they will continue to engage citizens of the United States through that profile."
MySpace polls show that 64 per cent of its female users back Obama as compared to 31 per cent favouring McCain.
Some 58 per cent of the men using the News Corp-owned social networking website, which boasts a total of more than 100 million members, prefer Obama to 38 per cent supporting McCain, according to survey results.
The younger the MySpace user the more likely he or she was to be pro-Obama, with his support rising from 53 per cent of those 35 years of age or older to 62 per cent of those between 18 and 24, results showed.
