In my search for a little mid-week levity I started reading up about last night’s Republican debate between Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney. Without giving away too much about my leftist leanings, let’s just say I can’t wait until next year’s Law and Order when all three of the aforementioned candidates are full-time actors as opposed to running our neighbour to the South.

More to the point, I found this very cool site, Wonkosphere, which charts the blogosphere to highlight who is in the news, and whether the blog press is giving them positive or negative reviews. And while the macro results aren’t that surprsing, i.e. Hilary grabs a regular 20+ % share of all blog postings, it’s a very interesting way to map the blogosphere’s reaction to individual headlines, candidate announcements or debate performances.

Now while this is cool, what would be even more interesting (not to mention strategically valuable) would be to compare the trend data provided by Wonkosphere with weekly polls – thus perhaps enabling political strategists to measure the real worth of the blogosphere on political results.