(iverson's) currentbuzz: If Clicks Were Votes

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

If Clicks Were Votes - Republican Candidates

It's just an idea, mapped out. Cool and thought-provoking.

The 2008 Presidential election is still over a year away, but the campaign is in full swing. While it’s still far too early to make any predictions about who will win the nominations, we can gauge public interest pretty easily by looking at traffic to each candidate’s website. And with the help of some nifty mapping software that my colleague Max Freiert recently purchased, we can track those traffic patterns on a state-by-state level.
So here’s a look at level of interest by state, as measured by the total number of visits to each of the top Republican candidate’s sites over the past six months:

Source: blog.compete.com