Posts Tagged ‘ Politics ’
With the Democratic and Republican conventions behind us – the 2012 race to the White House is in high speed with pundits talking up the next big political viewing experience – the presidential debates. There is some ‘debate’ as to whether or not these match-ups are in fact game changers in tight races. Even so, [...][ READ MORE ]
Art doesn’t often create a stir online, but artist Jon McNaughton’s controversial piece “The Forgotten Man” has done just that. The Rachel Maddow Show used the painting, which depicts President Obama standing on the United States’ Constitution, for a caption contest on the program’s blog. This contest reignited interest in “The Forgotten Man” specifically and [...][ READ MORE ]
As we head into the Florida primary on January 31st, we analyzed a category of the four remaining Republican presidential candidates to see who was receiving the most visits from the state of Florida. Experian Hitwise data shows that the Mitt Romney site received the majority of visits from Florida for the four weeks ending [...][ READ MORE ]
The positive impact of “The Colbert Bump” has been bestowed upon the political process this election cycle. In launching “Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow” (May/June 2011), the 501(c)(4) organization “The Colbert Super PAC S.H.H.” (September 2011) and his exploratory committee to become “The President of the United States of South Carolina” (January 2012), Stephen [...][ READ MORE ]
Despite the results of the Iowa caucus and South Carolina primary, if you look at Facebook, Mitt Romney is ahead by a huge margin. Total visits to the Facebook pages of the presidential candidates highlights the growth to Mitt Romney’s Facebook page over the past few weeks, visits have jumped 248% last week as compared [...][ READ MORE ]
As the Occupy movement passed its two month anniversary last week, Occupy-related sites (e.g occupywallstreet.org) experienced a resurgence in market share of visits. The initial peak in searches for variations of “occupy” and traffic to Occupy-related sites occurred in the first two weeks of October, as web-users sought general information about Occupy protests, the movement’s [...][ READ MORE ]
Searches for presidential candidates receive a boost following popular segments on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. After Mr. Romney’s statement at the Iowa State Fair that “corporations are people, my friend”, The Colbert Report aired a segment on August 11th purporting the support of Mr. Colbert (the character) for this position. On August [...][ READ MORE ]
Ongoing debates in Washington DC regarding the debt ceiling have captured the interest of Americans as many struggle to understand the overall impact. Search activity has been building over the past 5 weeks and variations of ‘debt ceiling’ jumped 232% for the week ending July 16, 2011 as compared to the prior week. Last week, [...][ READ MORE ]
On April 20th, President Obama visited Facebook headquarters to hold an online “town hall” meeting focused on the economy and The White House’s proposals for deficit reduction. Questions for the President were submitted in advance via The White House’s Facebook page, through The White House’s website, live from a number of social networks and from [...][ READ MORE ]
With her new book out, an appearance on Oprah and a controversial photo on the cover of Newsweek, searches for “sarah palin” rocketed last week. Searches for “sarah palin” increased more than 3 fold last week to account for 0.024% of all US Internet searches. Last week, searches for “sarah palin” didn’t reach the levels [...][ READ MORE ]
