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Posted By populist 1 year, 3 months ago in Science & Technology
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Hillary Clinton overtook Barack Obama in May, John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani held steady and Ron Paul rocketed from fifth place to first. That's according to Hitwise data showing the ebb and flow of traffic to the official sites of the Democratic and Republican presidential primary candidates.

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    coreyspring1 year, 3 months ago

    I think an important thing to remember though is that internet users are only a fraction of voters. Remember when we all thought Howard Dean was going to sweep the nation because of his internet popularity?

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      populist1 year, 3 months ago

      I don't believe the article made the claim that this was a representation of all the country's voters...

      But, as any webmaster would tell you, they will measure success to some level, by the amount of traffic their site is getting.

      The "web leaders" are obviously getting some attention.

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        populist1 year, 3 months ago

        I really wish we had the ability to retract negative votes on comments! Or, I should just learn to be more accurate in my clicking...

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        ind061 year, 3 months ago

        Ron Paul is coming on. The Republican candidates can do their best to pretend he's not a contender but they're going to have to deal with him.

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          Logik1 year, 3 months ago

          Go Ron Paul. The only traditional conservative in the bunch.

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          cfzero1 year, 3 months ago

          While not an accurate representation of his overall popularity, it might be a pretty nice indicator of his target demo.

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            onlyonesecret1 year, 3 months ago

            It would be wrong to say he doesn't have a prayer. He's got lots of them.

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