CAPP more popular than party leaders combined...

David Eaves, a public-policy entrepreneur, open government activist and negotiation expert based in Vancouver has published another article about the use of Facebook in political organizing. There was a (not completely scientific) poll conducted among the CAPP facebook group membership which revealed a few "surprises".

Anti-prorogation activists: engaged, voting and older

• just under half of those who completed the survey were 45 years of age or older. Thirty-four per cent were aged 31 to 44 and 16 per cent answered that they were aged 18 to 30. Not a single person who opted to take the survey was aged 12 to 18
• 96 per cent of the participants said they voted in the last federal election
  
• when asked why they joined, just over half (53 per cent) of respondents indicated it was because “proroguing parliament is undemocratic” and another 33 per cent said it was because “Parliament needs to investigate the Afghan detainee matter."
• Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament has signed up twice the number of Facebook members than all the political leaders combined (Conservatives 29,616; Liberals 28,898; NDP 27,713; Bloc 4,020; for a collective total of 90,247 fans)