Obama Leads Senate in Web Site Hits
Posted on: Wednesday, 24 January 2007, 12:00 CST
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., gets more Web site hits from surfers visiting through senate.gov than any other senator.
Web site traffic tracker Alexa.com said Obama's homepage is visited by 12 percent of Internet users passing though the Senate main page, nearly double the 7 percent drawn in by expected presidential nomination rival Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., The Hill, a Washington newspaper, reported Wednesday.
Fellow Democrat and former presidential contender Sen. John Kerry, Mass., who has not ruled out a second bid for the White House, drew 1 percent of visitors to the Senate Web site.
On the other site of the aisle, likely presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., garners 2 percent of Senate Web site surfers.
I imagine that Obama might be at the top because while all four of them are mentioned as possible presidential candidates, the others are known by the public much better for various reasons, Andrew Busch, a government professor at Claremont McKenna College, told The Hill. You would expect (Obama) to have the most traffic because he's the one with the least amount of information on him.
Source: United Press International
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