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	<title>Hitwise Blog &#187; Election2008</title>
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		<title>Inauguration Day Stats</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/01/22/inauguration-day-stats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/01/22/inauguration-day-stats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States was a major event for US Internet users on Tuesday since many needed to rely upon online streaming on news websites to view the event from work. As one might expect, the Broadcast Media and Politics categories were the main beneficiaries from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early voting questions and concerns among searchers</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/10/29/early-voting-questions-and-concerns-among-searchers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/10/29/early-voting-questions-and-concerns-among-searchers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election2008]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early voting has been underway in many states and Internet users are turning to search to help them find out about the process. The term &#8216;early voting&#8217; was ranked fourth among the Fast Moving Search Terms for the Politics category for the 4 weeks ending 10/25/2008 as compared to previous 4 week period. Another common [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travis Barker Tops Fast Moving Search Terms Week Ending Sept 20, 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/09/23/travis-barker-tops-fast-moving-search-terms-week-ending-sept-20-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/09/23/travis-barker-tops-fast-moving-search-terms-week-ending-sept-20-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street crisis and potential bailout is certainly top of mind for many consumers, but tragedy sent Travis Barker (former drummer of Blink 182 and star of MTV&#8217;s Meet the Barkers) to the top of Fast Moving Search Terms last week. On Friday, Travis and Adam Goldstein (DJ AM) escaped from a plane crash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Biden Paid Search Campaigns Begin</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/08/29/joe-biden-paid-search-campaigns-begin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/08/29/joe-biden-paid-search-campaigns-begin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election2008]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Search Strategies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once the major news outlets received the word that Obama had selected Senator Joe Biden of Delaware as his running mate, the announcement immediately resulted in a huge increase in the volume of searches for the search term &#8216;joe biden&#8217; as internet users sought to learn more about Obama&#8217;s VP pick. The majority of searches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential candidates &#8211; are states red and blue online?</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/08/27/presidential-candidates-are-states-red-and-blue-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/08/27/presidential-candidates-are-states-red-and-blue-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election2008]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the primaries we took a look at the visitation to the websites of presidential candidate hopefuls to predict the winners by state. Now that the nominations have been decided and the DNC is underway with the RNC not far behind, I thought it would be interesting to revisit this analysis. Below is an electoral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biden VP pick and DNC invigorates candidate site traffic</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/08/26/biden-vp-pick-and-dnc-invigorates-candidate-site-traffic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/08/26/biden-vp-pick-and-dnc-invigorates-candidate-site-traffic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election2008]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the forthcoming Democratic National Convention and Vice-President selection drove the 2nd highest share of visits to each of the websites of the presidential candidates in the past year. The only week with a higher share of visits included the Super Tuesday primaries. The market share of visits to BarackObama.com jumped 53% and 46% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-year Presidential Candidate Check</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/07/01/mid-year-presidential-candidate-check/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/07/01/mid-year-presidential-candidate-check/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that we are halfway through 2008, I figured that it is time to check on the two Presidential candidates and see who is visiting their websites. To make things interesting, I turned to our Mosaic Lifestyle segments to see which US Internet users identify as a supporter of the Democratic or Republican parties, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Tuesday results drives traffic spikes for News &amp; Media websites</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/02/11/super-tuesday-results-drives-traffic-spikes-for-news-media-websites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/02/11/super-tuesday-results-drives-traffic-spikes-for-news-media-websites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coverage of Tuesday&#8217;s election results drove the market share of visits to the News &#038; Media category to the 2nd highest peak in the past 36 months on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008. The market share of visits for News &#038; Media reached 4.65% across all categories, second only to the traffic spike on August 28, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election 2008 Update</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/06/14/election-2008-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/06/14/election-2008-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My TIME column about the politics of search is online here. Here&#8217;s some additional data that I didn&#8217;t include in the article (for all of the ILoveData fans). Caveat, searches for candidates prior to elections do not equate to votes, however the data does provide some interesting insight into which candidates are currently top-of-mind for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Candidates, the Science of Search and Time.com</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/02/09/top-candidates-the-science-of-search-and-time-com/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/02/09/top-candidates-the-science-of-search-and-time-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Time.com published my second column for The Science of Search (In case you missed the first column on the 4 Day Diet you can find it here). For those of you that have been reading the Hitwise Intelligence blog you know that we&#8217;ve posted several charts on searches for potential presidential candidates. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton Campaign Website Receives 2X More Traffic than Obama Website on Campaign Announcment Day</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/01/23/clinton-campaign-website-receives-2x-more-traffic-than-obama-website-on-campaign-announcment-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/01/23/clinton-campaign-website-receives-2x-more-traffic-than-obama-website-on-campaign-announcment-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LeeAnn Prescott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday&#8217;s launch of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s presidential campaign sent traffic to her campaign website soaring as voters sought more information. On January 20, 2007, the market share of visits to HillaryClinton.com was more than 2X greater than the market share of visits to BarackObama.com on January 16, 2007, the day of the Illinois senator&#8217;s official campaign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Clinton Chart Updated with Edwards</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/01/18/obama-clinton-chart-updated-with-edwards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/01/18/obama-clinton-chart-updated-with-edwards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election2008]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loren Baker over at Search Engine Journal requested that I update my chart from this post to include John Edwards. I intentionally omitted Edwards from the previous chart because our search term analysis reveals that over 15% of searchers for Edwards were actually looking for John Edward, TV personality and psychic (anyone catch the irony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama versus Clinton &#8211; Barack Advantage in Key States</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/01/16/obama-versus-clinton-barack-advantage-in-key-states/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/01/16/obama-versus-clinton-barack-advantage-in-key-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2007/01/16/obama-versus-clinton-barack-advantage-in-key-states/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In light of today&#8217;s news that Barack Obama is filing campaign papers today for the 2008 Presidential election, I&#8217;ve assembled a quick chart comparing the popularity of Obama compared to Clinton based on search queries for the two potential candidates. A quick look at the demographic composition of their two respective senate sites (obama.senate.gov and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-term Visits to Politics Category a Fraction of Presidential Election Traffic</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2006/11/06/mid-term-visits-to-politics-category-a-fraction-of-presidential-election-traffic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2006/11/06/mid-term-visits-to-politics-category-a-fraction-of-presidential-election-traffic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we head into mid-term elections this week, the visits to the Lifestyle &#8211; Politics category, a collection of 863 sites was nearly 1/3rd less then visits to the same category the Presidential Elections the first week of November 2004. To add further detail to what is transpiring leading up to Tuesday&#8217;s elections, we created [...]]]></description>
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