If Clicks Were Votes - Democratic Candidates
Written by Andrew Meagher (contact - e-mail) -- July 18th, 2007 | Recommend ThisYesterday I posted about traffic to the websites of the top Republican presidential candidates. Today it’s the Democrats’ turn. So, following the same procedures, here’s a look at level of interest by state, as measured by the total number of visits to each of the top Democratic candidate’s sites over the past six months:
Hillary Clinton
Clinton sees huge amounts of traffic from the northeast, where states like New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts are nearly entirely filled in. She also sees significant interest from southern states, including Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas, as well as strong showings in Florida and California.
John Edwards
The most noticeable strongholds for Edwards are his home state of North Carolina and the rust belt states of Ohio and Pennsylvania. The former Vice Presidential candidate is also getting a lot of attention in Iowa, whose early caucuses have traditionally been crucial to Presidential campaigns.
Barack Obama
Interest in Obama is spread far and wide, with serious displays of strength in most regions of the country. The Illinois Senator sees huge interest from his home state and throughout the Midwest, as well as impressive showings in Texas, California, and Washington.
Bill Richardson
Traffic to Governor Richardson’s site lags that of his Democratic opponents, with his one pocket of relative strength being his home state of New Mexico. If this map is any indication, Richardson might be better off angling for running-mate status.
What it means at the Convention
Again, following yesterday’s gameplan, we allocate delegates to candidates based on the number of people visiting from each state. That gives us:
Obama-mania sweeps the nation and Barack easily wins a majority of the delegates. Clinton makes a strong showing but can’t win without California and at least one other state in her column. Edwards and Richardson quietly ride off into the sunset.
So what happens in a showdown between Obama and Romney? At this stage it’s really no contest. The Democratic candidates currently have a massive edge in interest and intensity among Internet users:
But Moonbats, take caution before you pop the cork on the champagne. It’s early, and these are people visiting websites, not going to the polls. As for you Wingnuts out there, looks like you’ve got your work cut out for you. But take heart: most of the landslides in the past 30 years have gone your way.
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July 18th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Well, I have to say, although I’m a staunch conservative and voting for Ron Paul ‘08, between Hillary and Obama I’ll gladly take the latter. I hope that these figures really are an indication of his strength over Hillary.
I also think it’s fascinating, in a scary way, how much more traffic the Dem sites have generated. Of course, I’m no fan of any of the major GOP canddiates, but I’d still prefer them to a Dem - and if hits are votes, that’s not gonna happen.
July 18th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Will Ron Paul be featured tomorrow?
July 18th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Brian,
We covered Ron Paul Earlier today:
http://blog.compete.com/2007/07/18/ron-paul-visits-by-state/
July 18th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
After the past years in darkness and hatred cultivated by a Republican held Congress, even Republicans are deflecting to vote for Obama in the Primary election. There is even a website “Republicans for Obama”. Obama supporters are out registering people to vote, whereas Ron Paul supporters sit in front of their computers to search out and comment on anything pro-Obama. Some of them are downright nasty using the double F-words. Does not bode well for Ron Paul that is the type of following he attracts with his leadership. Thanks for sharing this info.
July 18th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
There is good reason to comment on pro-Obama statements. Obama cleverly, by virtue of his talent for oratory, leads people to believe that he is for “the people” when compelling evidence shows that he is very deeply connected to big corporate interests that are pro-war, e.g, the Crown Family of Chicago and General Dynamics, which is a big war profiteer. Yet, the Barack Star would have you believe that he is anti-war. See: “The Audacity of Fraud” by Pierre Tristam for starters:
http://pierretristam.com/Bobst/07/cn070607.htm
The great majority of America is mesmerized by this Pied Piper, this Wizard, hiding behind the curtain. He is a political charlatan who is a pro-war, pro-corporate wolf, masquerading in a sweet lamb’s clothing. He is even unwilling to take the nuclear option off the table! This is why I call him SuperBambi. He is just as juvenile as George Bush, and I would not want his finger on the nuclear button. Growing up in Hawaii, he played basketball and was known as “Obomba” because of shooting long range bombs from outside. He liked the name, and apparently still does. Today, as we wait for the launching of long range bombs on Iran, he is not objecting.
Another appropriate concern is his support for subsidies for big corporations which robs each of us and puts money in the pockets of those who also supported George Bush.
http://tinyurl.com/3y23uj
I challenge you to question the veracity of your beliefs about Obama and to look behind the curtain, as I did, and find the ambitious juvenile who is playing at being grown up. He has been bought many times over by corporate interests and is only “interested” in yours to get elected.
July 19th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Mike Gravel?
By the way, again I urge you to let me install a simple plug-in rather than a big toolbar to help you guys out. Wish you’d respond to that idea.
So hard for companies to figure out basic things…
July 19th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
@ underground: I’m still waiting for your email –
http://blog.compete.com/2007/07/16/compete-vertical-wrap-up-july/#comment-125522
In case you haven’t visited the new http://tools.compete.com — Compete has made available a Site Profile Plug-in that you can download for Firefox, and it is NOT a toolbar.
July 19th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Still clunky, but good news! :)
August 1st, 2007 at 3:17 pm
likkerish sounds like he is part of the “smear obama campaign”. When he graducated college, he took a $13,000. (before taxes) job to do community service for a church group, which is where he first started talking to everyday people about their wants, needs and concerns, He is against the kind of government corruption that allows wealthy corporations to make our laws. Halliburton, Kellogg, Root & Brown, the Bush and Cheney war profiteers going back to Prescott Bush and Hitler days (including Viet Nam), Hoffman La-Roche/Bird Flu vaccine and so on. He purposely geared his campaign fundraising efforts to gather small, indidvidual contributors as a gesture to showing he is not interested in “sleeping with” those corps you accuse him of being aligned with.
He “cleverly” uses his oratory talent to spur people to take their own action on a community level to make positive changes, rather than relying on him or anyone else to do so for us. He is a motivator and motives to do better. He truly believes in the Constitution and a government “of, for and by he people”. Just because you personally do not believe that does not make it any less true. After GWB/Cheney/Billl Clinton, the citizen’s BS detactors are fine tuned.
October 7th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Interesting perspective. I believe Democratic Primary voters will appreciate the positive differences between John Edwards and the other candidates before “the fat lady sings.” Polls don’t tell the whole story because they aren’t reflecting the many thoughtful voters who still are undecided. I see Edwards earning a majority of those votes. Don’t count on a ride into the sunset for John Edwards unless the sun sets over the White House.
January 4th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
I have to agree that Edwards seems the only viable candidate. I’m not worried about Obama’s lack of experience (I don’t really think it’s a problem), but I am worried about his lack of… gumption, for lack of a better word. He seems blithely confident that things will work out, that he can talk the corporate powers into being reasonable, and I just don’t have it in me to emulate his attitude.
Edwards is a different story. I have confidence that he will fight tooth and nail for the liberties and welfare of the American people.