Comments on: If Web Traffic Was Votes, Obama And Huckabee Would Win Super Tuesday

By: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:46:31 +0000

[...] Conventional wisdom says that it is Obama, whose performance on the Web has been strong since the beginning. And conventional wisdom is still correct when it comes to blogs and social networks. But a new [...]

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By: www.ubraniaroxy.pl » Blog Archive » Stats: Obama Still Winning On the Web

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:17:30 +0000

[...] that if you could vote on the Internet, Barack Obama would already be president. His Website has always attracted more traffic than those of other candidates. Unaffiliated video-endorsement site YouBama popped up spontaneously [...]

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Obama มาแรงบนอินเทอร์เน็ต « i am IA — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:05:20 +0000

[...] สำหรับพรรครีพับลิกันนั้นได้ตัวผู้ชนะไปแล้ว แต่ถ้าเอาเฉพาะขวัญใจชาวเน็ต ต้องยกให้ Mike Huckabee (ข้อมูลจาก TechCrunch) [...]

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ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:39:06 +0000

By: www.teletubis.info » Stats: Obama Still Winning On the Web

www.teletubis.info » Stats: Obama Still Winning On the Web — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:55:43 +0000

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Stats: Obama Still Winning On the Web — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:55:05 +0000

By: e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics » Quick Hits — February 5, 2008

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:25:21 +0000

[...] Does web traffic tell us that Obama and Huckabee will win big today? Josh is skeptical, and for good reason. More from the tPrez Daily Digest, including lots of [...]

By: jackmayhofferr

jackmayhofferr — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:43:09 +0000

Good thing this headline isn’t true

web traffic is too easily gamed

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:42:58 +0000

The way candidates have been using digital media and social networks is fascinating. While the biggest campaigns have been able to attract visitors to their web sites, some candidates have been doing a lot better than others when it’s time to leverage new media: YouTube, MySpace ….
Check out these articles:

http://blog.traackr.com

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:31:29 +0000

Grammar check? Are you guys kidding?

Traffic is singular so “was” is the correct verb, FAIK.

“Were” modifies plural nouns.

Anyone else on this LOL?

By: Jared White

Jared White — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:07:56 +0000

FYI, there is no “separation of church and state” in the Constitution. That was a phrase coined by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to a Baptist church where he was reassuring them of the government’s neutral role in promoting denominationalism. The first amendment prohibits congress from establishing a religious institution or movement (or restricting the free exercise thereof!), not from creating policy based on the values derived from religion — or even from holding religious services within government.

Back on topic — I agree that Huckabee’s Web traffic is probably stemming from the fact that so many of Huckabee’s supporters are engaged in grassroots efforts that are based on resources/news/info supplied from his Web site. He may not have the most impressively-engineered site around, but it’s very timely and very well connected with the grassroots.

By: Robin Seidner

Robin Seidner — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:03:21 +0000

Ron Paul has infused confusion into the race online for a while. For our most recent predictions using sentiment data from social media, Paul is skewing the race results pretty significantly for today’s contest in Massachusetts because of the amount of blog activity based there. see here: http://blog.col...ama-as-winners/

By: Grammar Police

Grammar Police — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:49:02 +0000

I think you mean “If Web Traffic Were Votes”…

nice article though!

By: J M J

J M J — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:24:27 +0000

Your report shows no statistical significance based on the scale of traffic. Maybe each week over the past few months, you should have reported Ron Paul as the winner. From the stats I see, it looks like he had a big lead in web traffic. Only dedicated efforts to ignore him have closed the gap.

By: Joey M

Joey M — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:28:49 +0000

With all due respect, can’t ComScore add anything more interesting to the political conversation than stale graphs with incomplete data? Also, I’d like someone to please tell me what use NATIONAL site traffic data is in projecting any meaningful insight into Super Tuesday which is won on a STATE by STATE basis? Please.

I found Compete.com’s data to be VASTLY more interesting. A recent post even cut the site traffic by the states visitors reside it. How novel. Read and decide for yourself.

http://blog.com...-super-tuesday/

Oh, and if you’d like to see what John McCain’s traffic was prior to November (I could have sworn he started campaigning last January!) Compete has that too:

http://siteanal....com/?metric=uv

By: zedwards

zedwards — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:56:18 +0000

I am not here to say which candidate is better but to comment on how the web does not necessarily dictate votes. Remember Howard Dean? He was the biggest web sensation and one little incident and it was over. So don’t put too much trust into the web.

By: Russell Heimlich

Russell Heimlich — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:37:47 +0000

If you had to decide the best canddiate based on their backend and frontend web server technologies, Obama would be the winner -> http://www.russ...the-candidates/

Hillary and most of the Republicans use Microsoft’s IIS, while most everyone else serves up their pages with Apache or some other form of an open source operating system.

By: I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog

I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:28:19 +0000

“People should read the Bible more and blog less.”

I think the Bible should be put in blog form. Then no-one would read it. Everybody wins!

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:33:43 +0000

Very surprised to see Huck so high but did he only launch his campaign site at the end of Oct? Ron Paul’s web stats are a given, he has cross appeal even though he has little chance – probably all the campaigns are going to his sites for ideas

What was strange was the dems. There was a spike for Hillary but then the pattern was pretty consistent. Can someone explain that? Was that the stupid song contest?

By: jh

jh — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:01:07 +0000

Ignoring the silly comments against Huckabee here. I think what is happening is the Dialing for Huckabee thing is causing that surge. Basically his web sites has a part here volunteers get a list of numbers in the SUper Tuesday states and call away. THey reload it when through with their numbers and get more.

I think we tried to make 100,000 calls today. I just got in and was not able to do it but that is what is happening

Oh and GEAUX HUCK

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:55:10 +0000

“If web Traffic WERE votes”, not “was”. Grammar check!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:38:06 +0000

Huckabee? What a joke…the guy is batshit insane. He wants to change the constitution so it looks more like the bible. Talk about missing the class on separation of church and state

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:31:43 +0000

How much of these stats are taken up by slurping by search engines? I wouldn’t put much credence into third party statistical systems… they are a guide but not something to decide even hypothetically if a person should become the president of a nation.

Jon
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By: Zaid

Zaid — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:30:15 +0000

Huckabee is powered by Chuck Norris, remember. His only option is to crush all his opponents.