Mike Huckabee nearly doubled his market share of web site traffic during the past three weeks, according to a Hitwise.com report (see graphic).
The former Arkansas governor-turned presidential hopeful vaulted into second place after garnering 29.9 percent of the web traffic market share during the week ending Oct. 27. That compares to only 15.49 percent he received during the week of Oct. 6 as reported in this post.
While Ron Paul‘s first-place numbers remained steady (37.3 to 36.59 percent), Fred Thompson surrendered the runner-up spot and fell to third place after losing more than 6 points during the last three weeks.
None of the remaining candidates collected more than 10 percent.
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1 veteransabroad // Nov 1, 2007 at 12:44 pm
I am surprised that Rudy gets so little excitement on the web…but he has the votes of people who do not read the Internet.
The book “Crossing the Chasm” says that, if Ron Paul can move across the chasm between the smart young Internet denizens who mostly support him…and the slow late adopters, he can win.
But you have to want a massive amount of change to want Paul.
And if Ron Paul won the Presidency, he would still be up against a Democrat House and Senate who would oppose him on a lot of things.
2 hotoffthepress // Nov 1, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Vets — What Rudy has, more than anything, is name recognition. I’m not so sure he’ll have actual votes come election day.
3 chukmaty // Nov 1, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Huckabee has one problem, even though being an orthedox conservative, he uses terminology and phrases tings in a way that many on the right find uncomfortable. He is hard to pin down on fiscal issues and has little name reconition. However he is the best communicator in the race in that he can sell ideas to the American people. He has the best shot at beating Hillary and too be able to strong arm the American people thanks to his ability to go right to them and win them over. He will dominate independant voters.
This is good for social conservatives because he has a very common sense approach to issue such as marriage and abortion. Also he has a more conservative fiscal record than Reagan did when he was California Governor. He can win blue states and would dominate the south and midwest as needed. His economic populism could win Michigan and Ohio as well.
Really it is a race against the clock for him to get more traction in Iowa and south Carolina against Romney and Thompson.
remember that Reagan, Carter, and Clinton were all longshots in their respective primaries.
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5 Ryan T. // Nov 7, 2007 at 2:34 am
Huckabee would be a good VP for Ron Paul. I think that’s the ticket – there I agree with you Bobby boy. (con cariño)
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