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Clinton is losing friends on MySpace, and traffic to her website seems to be crashing. Meanwhile, the interwebs are having a ball with "When Obama Wins."
login or register to post comments | Read more ...Because it's Friday, we bring you Bras for Hillary; Compete data shows a blowout for Barack Obama, but RealClearPolitics averages show a different story; are suffering from election fatigue?; GroundReport posts a transcript of last month's panel on the web and politics at NYU; Ron Paul supporters produce a pro-McCain site that could use a little subtlety; and Mike Huckabee will soon be launching a site about... taxes? We don't know.
login or register to post comments | Read more ...We're at the Politics Online conference, being busy and belated getting the digest done. But it's done! Google continues to map the primary results; are the Clinton and Obama "red telephone" ads really the "first breakout hits of the YouTube campaign"?; more on Obama as Apple; those conference mp3's are on their way to your inbox; Obama is dominating our Hitwise charts; Brave New Films' anti-McCain videos are getting big; Hillaryis44 creator uncovered, five people rejoice; Obama's campaign boasts of 1.5 million calls to today's primary states.
1 comment | Read more ...While we wait for the caucus to begin and for the results to trickle in, some links to help you bide your time.
Oh, and this:

Matt Bai identifies the core lesson of the Dean campaign, and says that almost no 2008 campaigns have actually learned it; ActBlue seeks to move beyond individual fundraising; William Beutler stays on the Republican ActBlue beat; the ONE campaign produces videos of the candidates' statements on poverty, but most Republicans aren't involved; OuijaVote 2008 is the first project to restore our "paranormal democracy"; new Compete data breaks down candidate site popularity by state; and our Hitwise charts show Mike Huckabee pulling even with Ron Paul in his share of web traffic.
login or register to post comments | Read more ...Ever since Stephen Colbert announced his run for president, I’ve been keeping an eye out for his web strategy. After all, this is the guy that mobilized 17,231,724 people to go online and vote to name a Hungarian bridge after him.
He still hasn’t come up with anything fun (yet), but an interesting report shows that Colbert’s site ColbertNation.com is the fourth most-visited site among the candidates.
4 comments | Read more ...We’re continuing to expand our smorgasbord of political data, and today we present you with our latest offering: Hitwise Traffic.
2 comments | Read more ...David Brooks thinks the netroots' influence is on the wane; an anti-Hillary Facebook group has more supporters than its pro-Obama counterpart; more details about John Edwards' visit to Columbus, KY; James Kotecki writes about his experiences as one of the first videobloggers to cover the campaign; Ron Paul is raising a fair amount of money in an end-of-quarter fundraising sprint; and Fred Thompson no longer leads in the number of visits to candidate sites.
login or register to post comments | Read more ...The National Journal launches a political stock exchange, giving people the chance to predict the outcome of the election; yesterday was the original date of the Republican CNN/YouTube debate, and Katherine Seelye wonders if the idea has lost its steam; according to Hitwise, Fred Thompson's website is getting more traffic than anyone elses'; Hillary Clinton produces an "interactive webcast" to explain her health plan tonight; a new episode of "Running with Rudy" follows Rudy to a NASCAR track in New Hampshire; and Mitt Romney's campaign calls is create-your-own-ad contest a success.
login or register to post comments | Read more ...Wikipedia and the candidates; Jane Hamsher sends an open letter to Elizabeth Edwards; Fred Thompson's website a hit with older men; tracking candidates' buzz? Here's five sites that can help; John McCain suggest that MoveOn.org move out of the country; the "telephone town hall" idea takes hold.
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