AmericaSpace Update: Updated numbers
Several groups have risen up on Facebook to fight against, as well as on behalf of, the Obama Administration’s new plans for NASA.
Here is a list of pro-Constellation groups fighting the Administration’s plans,
- Save NASA’s Constellation and Manned Space Flight Program 21,025
Support NASA an the Space Program 15,937
Support the NASA Constellation Program 4,889
Save America’s Space Program 12,946
Save NASA! 19,168
Save the Utah Aerospace Economy 792
Pro-Constellation total: 74,757
Meanwhile, here’s a list of anti-Constellation groups that support the Administrations plans,
- New Direction 196
NASA Watch Facebook 248
Commercial Spaceflight Federation 924
Commercial Space Place 81
Commercial Space Travel 132
SpaceX 1,275
Next Step In Space 1,235
Anti-Constellation total: 4,091
If Democracy is about numbers of voters interested in a policy, we’d have to conclude that the President’s new policy isn’t likely to survive when a 18:1 ratio of people on Facebook oppose those policies as approve of them.
Just curious if you scrubbed the various lists to remove people who are members of more than one to get a more accurate count.
Neal,
Thanks for your comment.
No, we didn’t scrub either collection of groups since we felt that both sides are seeing equal percentages of cross-overs. Also, none of us are good enough with Facebook’s API’s to build an app on the fly that could scrub all of the groups. After all, we’re talking about comparing 75,000 folks in the pro-Constellation space alone.
Jim-AmericaSpace Editor