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Videos Mentioning Obama or Romney Top 2 Billion Views

The U.S. election is heating up, and we’re not just talking about the humidity in Tampa. Since April 2011, when Romney officially entered the race, close to 600,000 videos mentioning Obama or Romney have been uploaded to YouTube, and these videos account for close to 2 billion views.

Topping the list of these videos is baracksdubs’ “Barack Obama Singing Call Me Maybe,” which has racked up over 24 million views in just a few months.



Political pop song parodies are on the rise in general. In the past month, this Gotye parody titled, “Obama That I Used to Know” and a more humorous One Direction parody about Romney have both crossed the million view mark and hit the YouTube Trending Videos list.

It’s not just light-hearted fare that have people tuning in. Since the primaries began, there have been more than 100 million views of official presidential candidate videos on YouTube.

In fact, in just the last 30 days, people have spent more than 20 cumulative years watching official videos of Obama and Romney (that’s two years longer than Justin Bieber has been alive).

And new uploads from Obama and Romney’s official YouTube channels are gaining traction quickly, with videos receiving hundreds of thousands of views within a few days of upload. The latest video on Obama for America’s YouTube channel has received over 217,000 views in just 24 hours. And since Mitt Romney announced Paul Ryan as his running mate, he has seen a surge in both channel subscribers (a 300% increase since the Ryan announcement) and views. Their first video together, “America’s Comeback Team” has racked up over 1.1 million views in two weeks and is the second most-viewed video on the Romney channel:



We’ll be tracking the political trends on YouTube until Election Day. To keep your finger on the pulse of political video, and to watch up-to-the-minute live and on-demand coverage from the campaign trail, visit the YouTube Elections Hub at www.youtube.com/politics or follow YouTube Politics here.
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Political Videos of the Week: Gingrich Out and More

A number of U.S. political videos are spreading quickly this week.

Today, candidate Newt Gingrich gave advance notice to his supporters via a YouTube video that he will be dropping out of the presidential race this week. It's quickly seeing pick up on political blogs and news sites:



Meanwhile, President Obama revealed his campaign slogan for the 2012 election in this top trending video and 7-minute documentary.



The President also has had two other very popular videos/appearances hit our trending feeds this week: his "duet" with Jimmy Fallon "Slow Jamming the News" and his remarks at this past weekend's White House Correspondent's Dinner.

For his part, GOP candidate Mitt Romney also has a video on our most-shared list right now: a critical spot called "Broken Promises."
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Super Tuesday: Most Viewed GOP Videos This Season

Today's Super Tuesday in the United States with 10 states holding primary elections to help determine which Republican candidate will be selected to run against President Barack Obama this Fall.

We went through the data and saw that videos posted by the official GOP candidate channels were viewed over 40 million times since last the start of last June. Taking a look at the top 10 most viewed clips in that bunch (below) reveals that it was Governor Rick Perry who drew the most attention.
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The Top Political Videos of 2011

From candidate ads to pundit debates, speeches from the White House to impassioned pleas from the American heartland, this year’s most-viewed political videos show us that a message that resonates can come from anywhere -- and anyone.

Surpassing the President and various presidential hopefuls in views, the #1 video on our list comes from a young man in Iowa speaking candidly to his government. Zach Wahls’ 3 minute speech defending gay marriage has been viewed more than 18 million times.



Three candidates for 2012 made the most-viewed political videos list. Gov. Rick Perry's highly-covered "Strong" ad was uploaded just this month, but has already racked up 7 million views (another one of his ads, “Proven Leadership” is also on the list). Herman Cain, who recently suspended his bid for President, showed that quirky gets views. President Obama reached an audience of millions on YouTube as both commander in chief, and stand up comedian.

Here’s the full list of the most-viewed political videos from the YouTube News and Politics category:

1. Zach Wahls speaks about family
2. President Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
3. Strong [Rick Perry ad]
4. President Obama on death of Osama bin Laden
5. Brother, can you spare a trillion? Government gone wild!
6. Seth Meyers remarks at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
7. Rick Perry - Proven Leadership
8. Jon Stewart Goes Head-to-Head Bill O'Reilly
9. Now is the time for action! [Herman Cain ad]
10. President Barack Obama's First Ad of 2012 [NRSC Ad]

In all, the videos on this list account for over 50 million views, demonstrating that there is significant interest in political video on YouTube before the primaries have even begun. For all the key moments in online political video during the coming election, visit YouTube.com/Politics. For more of YouTube’s most-viewed videos of 2011, visit YouTube.com/Rewind.
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Perry’s 'Strong' Ad Spawns Parodies and Reactions

In under 48 hours, Rick Perry’s latest ad, “Strong,” has racked up close to 750,000 views and is the most-shared and most-viewed video on YouTube in the United States today. Earlier in the day "rick perry strong" was one of our top rising search terms.



The video has also incited significant conversation on the site -- dozens of YouTube users have uploaded parody and response videos to Perry’s original ad.
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Rick Perry’s 'Oops': The Morning After on YouTube

Rick Perry’s stumble in last night’s CNBC debate -- in which he took 53 seconds to come up with the name of a third government agency before giving up -- was a top rising search last night and is this morning’s most-viewed YouTube video in the United States. Footage of the "oops" moment was viewed over half a million times in the twelve hours following the debate, and that number is still climbing.

Where is it popular? Where it matters most. Today, the Perry gaffe is the most-viewed video in both Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, two Iowa cities which are incredibly important to GOP hopefuls with the Iowa Caucus just weeks away.

Nationwide, the footage also sits atop this morning’s Trending Video list and is the #2 most-shared in the United States, placing well ahead of Ellen and Lebron.



For more on all the hot political videos of 2012, visit YouTube.com/Politics.
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Herman Cain's Trending Campaign Spot of the Week

Herman Cain made a big splash this week with his ad featuring Chief of Staff Mark Block smoking a cigarette. The ad, titled "Now is the Time for Action," has now been seen over one million times since Monday. According to YouTube.com/Politics, it's the second-most-viewed video of the 2011 GOP Candidates, only behind Rick Perry's "Proven Leadership."



Meanwhile politically-engaged jokesters created a number of parody versions, a selection of which are available in the CitizenTube playlist below.

(Use the arrows to navigate between videos or watch them all here.)
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Occupy Wall Street Videos: SF, NYC

In the U.S., "Occupy Wall Street" has among the top Youtube rising searches in the past week and each day we continue to see groups of videos posted from demonstrations which have now extended to other cities outside of New York. Roughly 10,000 videos tagged "occupy wall street" have been posted in the past week.

Last night, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg was captured on video making an appearance at the protest site, reportedly to inform protesters that the area was due for a cleaning. This is one of the videos posted of his visit:



Yesterday, video was posted of a demonstration in downtown San Francisco at a Wells Fargo Bank. In this clip, some of the protesters can be seen being placed under arrest. Meanwhile, the footage below, which purports to show a confrontation between San Francisco police and protesters last week, has now become one of the most-viewed videos in the area.

Warning: Adult Language!



Another video that's drawing attention today is a humorous, undercover video filmed by James O'Keefe's Project Veritas (As seen on Gawker).
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Visualizing Your Questions to the GOP Candidates

Nearly 19,000 questions were submitted on YouTube for Thursday's Google and Fox News Republican Primary debate in Florida. More than 100,000 votes were cast to help determine the questions that will be asked of the candidates this evening.

We took those 19,000 questions, which were asked among nine varying categories, and analyzed the words people used when expressing their perspectives and concerns using a tool from Wordle.net. Here's the one for "Government Spending and Debt."


The other eight, as well as the graphic for all the questions, will be available on the Fox News debate channel.

More: See word clouds from your interview with President Obama from earlier this year.
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Obama's New Campaign: Sobering Cynicism


The current debate in Washington over the debt ceiling has served as inspiration for a number of recent musical parodies like Remy's smash hit "Raise the Debt Ceiling." Fortunately, as the 2012 election draws nearer, it seems like that it's only the beginning of the political parody season.

This new video from LandlineTv documents the search for the latest Obama girl. Armed with a revised re-election strategy that emphasizes measured pessimism and sobering cynicism, Obama's campaigning team looks brightly into the future.
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Celebs Make Videos for Onion Pulitzer Campaign

Some of our top Trending videos this week have come from an effort launched by the "Americans For Fairness in Awarding Journalism Prizes." You can see their PSA here, which explains the campaign against the Pulitzer Prize for its long time lock-out of The Onion from the recipients.

A host of celebrities from Mario Batali to Arianna Huffington have filmed short clips in support of The Onion and against the Pulitzer board. Below, we've collected 10 more popular videos from some surprising actors and other big names who've contributed to the cause so far:
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