Visits to Huckabee, Edwards Websites Surge

[JohnLocke]

Visits to Huckabee, Edwards Websites Surge
The NPR News Blog
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It's not the most important indicator of how a candidate is doing, but it is another measurement that helps create an overall-picture: the amount of time that people spend online each month looking at websites created by presidential candidates. And the folks at Complete, which measures this kind of statistical information, have released the Candidates Face Time data for November.

And the big face time winners are ... (drum roll, please) Mike Huckabee and John Edwards. Huckabee saw the amount of time people spent at his websites increase by 194 percent. Edwards's went up 181 percent. (Barack Obama still gets the most visits over all for Democrats, but his growth was much slower than Edwards in November.) TechPresident reports that both were helped by popular videos on their sites: Huckabee's Chuck Norris endorsement, and Edwards for his Parsing of Politics attack on Hilary Clinton.

When it comes to online face time, however, one candidate reigns supreme. Texas Rep. Ron Paul still gets almost twice as much online attention as the person in second-place, Huckabee.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2007/12/huckabee_edwards_surge_online_1.html

[saltpoint]

1. Very encouraged by the cyber activity for the John Edwards campaign --

Go, Johnny, go -- but almost equally freaked out by the attention given to Paul and Huckabee.

[asdjrocky]

2. It is a movement.

We are in truly historical times.

[saltpoint]

3. We are.

And it feels pretty exhilarating.

Hiya, Rocky. :hi:

[JohnLocke]

4. Kick

[MethuenProgressive]

5. Keep clicking "refresh" Edwardians!

"It's not the most important indicator of how a candidate is doing"
That part's true.