It Worked.
By Patrick Ruffini, 09/08/2007 - 6:15pm

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Maybe Republicans aren't allergic to the Interwebs after all. If you give them a reason to go online, to signup and donate, in the form of a big event -- they will. What you see above is the surge of traffic to Fred08.com the day of his online-exclusive announcement.

I had voiced the concern that they were blowing it by announcing the announcement. While we'll never know what this chart would have looked like with a real surprise announcement, this does put him in the same general range as Hillary and Obama's announcement (factoring in residual ImWithFred traffic) and it beats the Sopranos (why would that be?).

We'll need to see how this holds up. It's an open question to me whether the Clinton and Obama announcements helped build them a stronger traffic base in the following months, with lasting benefits in terms of signups and money raised. Let's see if Fred's traffic settles back down to where it was before, or whether he reaches a new plateau.

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Fred's traffic falls below Ron Paul's

As of September 7 (the day after the chart above) Alexa shows that traffic to fred08.com had already dropped below ronpaul2008.com (rising after the September 5th debate).

By Steve Dasbach at Sun, 09/09/2007 - 1:19pm | login or register to post comments

Alexa is a flawed measuring tool?

Steve, Patrick knows better than to compare Fred with Ron Paul. Here's a direct quote:

"Alexa is a flawed measuring tool because it’s self-selected. According to Alexa, Ron Paul is even bigger than Barack Obama online."

By Tex MacRae at Sun, 09/09/2007 - 4:23pm | login or register to post comments

Big Whoop - Ron Paul still has more traffic

Welcome to 2nd place Fred


Alexa Graph w/ RonPaul2008.com

By jeff at Mon, 09/10/2007 - 3:00pm | login or register to post comments

Fred Flintstone's Amazing Technological Breakthrough... NOT!

The recent statistics for Fred's website reflect the fact that his announcement was widely publicized. They do not reflect anything about his ability to harness technology. Now that the hoopla is over, let's see how his long term stats compare to those of longstanding internet campaign extraordinaire, Dr. Ron Paul. My prediction: Fred is a flash in the proverbial pan.

By adamkuehner at Mon, 09/10/2007 - 8:25pm | login or register to post comments

BOOTS ON THE GROUND

Meetup.com members as of 9/11/2007
These numbers are important, because they are unsolicited grass roots support, and they are actual people who are out supporting the candidate of their choice.

Republicans

Paul............42,566
Hunter.............192
Thompson...........170
McCain.............107
Giuliani............55
Tancredo............04
Huckabee............31
Romney..............30
Brownback............0

Democrats

Obama..........5809
Edwards........4123
Kucinich.......4039
Clinton........2022
Gravel...........44
Richardson.......33
Biden.............0
Dodd..............0

By RPmaniac at Tue, 09/11/2007 - 8:25am | login or register to post comments

Not News.

I thought everyone already knew Alexa scores mean absolutely nothing. They can be gamed just like the Ron Paul'ers are doing with digg.com by floating their stories to the top by having an organized crowd.

Except webmasters, who actually has the alexa toolbar installed?

But seriously, he's nowhere near Barack Obama in any REAL numbers.

Alabama for Barack Obama

By fanboy at Wed, 09/12/2007 - 11:35pm | login or register to post comments



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