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“The Forgotten Man” Drives Online Art Frenzy

February 10, 2012

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... Continue reading...

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Romney leading in Florida per online visits

January 31, 2012

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... Continue reading...

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Super PACs: Colbert Drives Interest in Political Process

January 30, 2012

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... Continue reading...

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Indecision 2012: Stewart & Colbert Drive Political Interest

October 13, 2011

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... Continue reading...

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Latest Political Polls Track with Online Performance for Presidential Candidates

September 15, 2011

As Rasmussen and NBC/ WSJ released polling data last week indicating that Rick Perry has pulled ahead of the GOP pack, the candidates’ websites showed similar performance. In the lead-up to Ms. Bachmann’s successful performance in the Ames Straw Poll... Continue reading...

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Searches reflecting concerns over debt ceiling

July 27, 2011

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%... Continue reading...

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In Categories Economy | Politics

Obama's Facebook Town Hall Meeting

April 25, 2011

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... Continue reading...

Inauguration Day Stats

January 22, 2009

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.... Continue reading...

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In Categories Election2008 | News and Media | Politics | Social Networking

Travis Barker Tops Fast Moving Search Terms Week Ending Sept 20, 2008

September 23, 2008

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... Continue reading...

Joe Biden Paid Search Campaigns Begin

August 29, 2008

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’... Continue reading...

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In Categories Election2008 | Politics

Presidential candidates - are states red and blue online?

August 27, 2008

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... Continue reading...

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Biden VP pick and DNC invigorates candidate site traffic

August 26, 2008

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... Continue reading...

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In Categories Election2008 | Politics