Obama, Ron Paul Soar in Web Traffic

Newsmax
Monday December 17, 2007

Barack Obama has surged to the lead among presidential candidates in the war of the Web — his campaign site on the Internet attracted more visitors in November than any of his Democratic or Republican rivals.

Hillary Clinton has dropped to third among Democrats — and Ron Paul continues to lead all Republican candidates, with nearly twice as many visitors as his nearest GOP rival, Mike Huckabee.

In October, Obama had 589,000 unique visitors to his campaign Web site, barackobama.com, but that number soared to 821,000 visitors in November, according to Nielsen NetRatings projections.

Clinton, meanwhile, in November had barely more than half as many visitors as in October.

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In November, libertarian Republican Ron Paul’s site, ronpaul2008.com, counted 673,000 visitors, up from 451,000 in October. Though lagging in national polls, Paul has been running an aggressive Web campaign.

The number of visitors to Republican John McCain’s site plunged to just 94,000 in November, down from 182,000 in October.

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

REPUBLICANS

Ron Paul: 673,000

Mike Huckabee: 337,000

Mitt Romney: 229,000

Fred Thompson: 217,000

Rudy Giuliani: 106,000

John McCain: 94,000


DEMOCRATS

Barack Obama: 821,000

John Edwards: 487,000

Hillary Clinton: 355,000

Joe Biden: 178,000

Chris Dodd: 164,000

Bill Richardson: 32,000

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

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