Posts Tagged ‘ Politics ’
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 [...][ READ MORE ]
In anticipation of today’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’ve found myself googling for the date, time, order of the day, history of the [...][ READ MORE ]
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’d add to the conversation with an update of our electoral map. First, here is the New York Times’ electoral map showing which states are considered to be in play. Dark [...][ READ MORE ]
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 ‘early voting’ 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 [...][ READ MORE ]
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’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 [...][ READ MORE ]
From our ABCNews Blog: John McCain’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 [...][ READ MORE ]
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’s look at how much traffic News and Media websites send to BarackObama.com and to JohnMcCain.com. The following chart shows [...][ READ MORE ]
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 ‘joe biden’ as internet users sought to learn more about Obama’s VP pick. The majority of searches [...][ READ MORE ]
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 [...][ READ MORE ]
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% [...][ READ MORE ]
