The American presidential election (89)
“The usage of the two campaign Web sites (www.johnmccain.com and www.barackobama.com) can be tracked like any other large Web site via services like Hitwise, Alexa, Compete and Google Trends, to name a few. Overall, traffic to the campaign Web sites shows very clear trends regardless of data source. Hitwise shows a consistent 2-to-1 advantage in unique site visitors for Obama’s official campaign site in a head-to-head comparison, from August through early October — with the exception of a significant narrowing of that gap around the week of the Republican National Convention.”
Extract from this article on Network World.
“Using DomainTools to query for domains, we saw 2,357 domains for Obama and 1,431 domains for McCain. When we stemmed the query to domains just having either “Obama” or “McCain” included in them, we saw 5,378 for McCain and 11,089 for Obama.”
.Extract from this article in the “New York Times”.
So, however, you measure it Net traffic favours Obama. Now let’s see if the voters do. Less than one hour before the first polls close …