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	<title>Hitwise Blog &#187; Politics</title>
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		<title>Top news &amp; media websites for key voter segments</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/09/18/top-news-media-websites-for-key-voter-segments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/09/18/top-news-media-websites-for-key-voter-segments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Illiano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“The Forgotten Man” Drives Online Art Frenzy</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/02/10/%e2%80%9cthe-forgotten-man%e2%80%9d-drives-online-art-frenzy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/02/10/%e2%80%9cthe-forgotten-man%e2%80%9d-drives-online-art-frenzy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot Bonner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romney leading in Florida per online visits</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/01/31/romney-leading-in-florida-per-online-visits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/01/31/romney-leading-in-florida-per-online-visits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/?p=29799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super PACs: Colbert Drives Interest in Political Process</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/01/30/super-pacs-colbert-drives-interest-in-political-process/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/01/30/super-pacs-colbert-drives-interest-in-political-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot Bonner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/?p=29815</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8221; (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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitt Romney Winning the Facebook Race</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/01/24/mitt-romney-winning-the-facebook-race/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/01/24/mitt-romney-winning-the-facebook-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/?p=29827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street Sites Win Diverse Audience</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/11/23/occupy-wall-street-sites-win-diverse-audience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/11/23/occupy-wall-street-sites-win-diverse-audience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot Bonner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News and Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;occupy&#8221; 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&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indecision 2012: Stewart &amp; Colbert  Drive Political Interest</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/10/13/indecision-2012-stewart-colbert-drive-political-interest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/10/13/indecision-2012-stewart-colbert-drive-political-interest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot Bonner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colbert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Stewart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV Shows]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/10/13/indecision-2012-stewart-colbert-drive-political-interest/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Searches for presidential candidates receive a boost following popular segments on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. After Mr. Romney&#8217;s statement at the Iowa State Fair that &#8220;corporations are people, my friend&#8221;, The Colbert Report aired a segment on August 11th purporting the support of Mr. Colbert (the character) for this position. On August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Searches reflecting concerns over debt ceiling</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/07/27/searches-reflecting-concerns-over-debt-ceiling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/07/27/searches-reflecting-concerns-over-debt-ceiling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2011/07/27/searches-reflecting-concerns-over-debt-ceiling/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8216;debt ceiling&#8217; jumped 232% for the week ending July 16, 2011 as compared to the prior week. Last week, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Facebook Town Hall Meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/04/25/obamas-facebook-town-hall-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/04/25/obamas-facebook-town-hall-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2011/04/25/obamas-facebook-town-hall-meeting/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On April 20th, President Obama visited Facebook headquarters to hold an online &#8220;town hall&#8221; meeting focused on the economy and The White House&#8217;s proposals for deficit reduction. Questions for the President were submitted in advance via The White House&#8217;s Facebook page, through The White House&#8217;s website, live from a number of social networks and from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin Frenzy Picks Up Online</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/11/24/sarah-palin-frenzy-picks-up-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/11/24/sarah-palin-frenzy-picks-up-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News and Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personalities]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2009/11/24/sarah-palin-frenzy-picks-up-online/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With her new book out, an appearance on Oprah and a controversial photo on the cover of Newsweek, searches for &#8220;sarah palin&#8221; rocketed last week. Searches for &#8220;sarah palin&#8221; increased more than 3 fold last week to account for 0.024% of all US Internet searches. Last week, searches for &#8220;sarah palin&#8221; didn&#8217;t reach the levels [...]]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election2008]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2009/01/22/inauguration-day-stats/</guid>
		<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>Obama Inauguration and Direct Communication with Voters</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/01/20/obama-inauguration-and-direct-communication-with-voters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/01/20/obama-inauguration-and-direct-communication-with-voters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2009/01/20/obama-inauguration-and-direct-communication-with-voters/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In anticipation of today&#8217;s inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States, I looked at Hitwise data to find out what people are doing in the run-up to the big day. Over the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve found myself googling for the date, time, order of the day, history of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swing State Comparison for Obama and McCain</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/10/31/swing-state-comparison-for-obama-and-mccain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/10/31/swing-state-comparison-for-obama-and-mccain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2008/10/31/swing-state-comparison-for-obama-and-mccain/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With new polls suggesting the presidential race is tightening and with all eyes on key battleground states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, I thought I&#8217;d add to the conversation with an update of our electoral map. First, here is the New York Times&#8217; electoral map showing which states are considered to be in play. Dark [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Fast Moving Search Terms]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2008/10/29/early-voting-questions-and-concerns-among-searchers/</guid>
		<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>
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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>Palin &#8211; Most Searched for Political Figure</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/09/03/palin-most-searched-for-political-figure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/09/03/palin-most-searched-for-political-figure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2008/09/03/palin-most-searched-for-political-figure/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From our ABCNews Blog: John McCain&#8217;s decision to add Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket has resulted in unprecedented media coverage for the first female Republican VP nominee, but just how interested is the American public in the governor from Alaska? Search-term volume is arguably the best way to measure curiosity about Sarah Palin (although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain Catching Obama in News and Media Traffic But Deep Divide Persists</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/09/03/mccain-catching-obama-in-news-and-media-traffic-but-deep-divide-persists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/09/03/mccain-catching-obama-in-news-and-media-traffic-but-deep-divide-persists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media is accused of a liberal bias and of being all too kind in coverage of Barack Obama. What can clickstream data tell us about this bias and the red-blue divide in America? First let&#8217;s look at how much traffic News and Media websites send to BarackObama.com and to JohnMcCain.com. The following chart shows [...]]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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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