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randolphus maximus
11-14-2007, 07:34 PM
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/candidate_web_war/2007/11/14/49548.html

This is something most everyone here knows but it's positive coverage:


Hillary Clinton has surged to the lead among presidential candidates in the war of the Web — her campaign site on the Internet attracted more visitors in October than any of her Democratic or Republican rivals.


In September, Hillary had 302,000 unique visitors to her campaign Web site, hillaryclinton.com, but that number more than doubled to 693,000 visitors in October, according to Nielsen Co. NetRatings projections.


Meanwhile Ron Paul, a libertarian Republican, has been winning the GOP Internet battle.


In October, his site, ronpaul2008.com, counted 451,000 visitors. Though lagging in national polls, Paul has been running an aggressive Web campaign.


Last week, Paul announced his coffers snagged an incredible $4.3 million in a single day of online fundraising. His campaign added another $1 million this week, officials said.


The number of visitors to Republican Fred Thompson’s site plunged in October. In the previous month, Thompson led all GOP and Democratic presidential candidates with 635,000 visitors to his site, fred08.com. But his site dropped to fifth place among Republican candidates’ sites in October, with only 152,000 unique visitors.


Here are the numbers of unique visitors for each of the presidential Web sites, according to NetRatings Inc. projections.


REPUBLICANS


Ron Paul: 451,000


Mitt Romney: 325,000


Mike Huckabee: 321,000


John McCain: 182,000


Fred Thompson: 152,000


Rudy Giuliani: 140,000


DEMOCRATS


Hillary Clinton: 693,000


Barack Obama: 589,000


John Edwards: 418,000


Chris Dodd: 301,000


Bill Richardson: 60,000


Joe Biden: 47,000


NetRatings did not post a number for Dennis Kucinich’s site, which attracted only 6,000 visitors in September.

MyKillK
11-14-2007, 07:38 PM
Alexa clearly indicates that ronpaul2008.com has steadily received more traffic than anyone else, a trend that is becoming stronger with every passing month. Currently at 3-4x the traffic of either Obama or Hillary and way higher than any Republican

Ethek
11-14-2007, 07:42 PM
Teaparty07 is running about even with Hillary and Obamas sites at this point.