As the states prepare to begin awarding their delegates next month, analyzing the size, geographic and demographic makeup of each candidate’s online following (in this case visitors to the candidates’ websites) offers insight, beyond the never ending stream of opinion polls, as to who is likely to win these primaries and caucuses and secure t

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Google is trying hard to make available the world’s information quickly and easily for anyone. Google has announced today the importance of Google services that will allow you to know the results quicker than the boring paper media. In fact, Google is not just satisfied with fast Iowa Caucus results, they want to deliver the results to you re

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ABC News projects that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama will be the winner of the Iowa Democratic caucuses. At this point ABC News does not have enough information yet to project who will come in second or third.
Looking ahead to the Granite State's primary on Tuesday, Obama adviser David Axelrod said, "In every way we have exceeded expectations

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ABC News projects that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will be the winner of the Iowa Caucuses, beating out former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the two-man race for the Republican party's top spot in Iowa.
The victory follows a surging December for Huckabee, a former Baptist pastor who has described his campaign as "shoestring" an

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This may be the year that ordinary folks take back the political process from the professionals. Party bosses used to control their party's choice of political candidate. Then, the primaries gave that choice back to the people. However, with the advent of mass communication, party elites once again wrestled control of the process away from o

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Super Tuesday
One of the benefits of being online is it is a lot easier to research candidates while learning what fellow voters are doing and staying to stay up to date. Additionally, with the internet it is easier to explain while straightforwardly examples and links supporting topics on politics such as what is Super Tuesda

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now comes word that she is trying to get Barack Obama’s pledged delegates to switch their vote to her. Or at least she will try to according to one of her campaign officials if she can’t win fair and square. We are talking about the delegates that Obama won when he won the different state primaries and caucuses. We are talking

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Big changes will be difficult to pull off. Small changes, especially to caucuses seem more likely. We've already seen one caucus state from 2008 discuss both switching to a primary and scheduling the contest early in the process (Kansas) in 2012 and another caucus state that was already early discuss switching to a primary (Mi

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As the race for the Democratic nomination has continued into parts unknown (namely April and May), some attention has been paid in this space to the idea that a candidate gains or loses support/delegates as the caucus process moves from step to step. The posts examining the Caucus Question, as it has come to be known, have focu

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What started out four months ago as a Clinton win (in terms of votes) ended up as a Nevada victory for Barack Obama in terms of caucus strategy. Obama parlayed a solid January showing in rural Nevada and lower than expected Clinton support at the district caucuses into a three delegate advantage (14-11) over Clinton in the Silv

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One part look back at the caucus proceedings in Colorado, Kansas, Nevada and Washington over the weekend, where 120 Democratic national convention delegates were on the line (but sporadically reported on). Plus, one part glance forward to the primaries in Kentucky and Oregon, that could effectively end the contest for the Demo

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In Nevada there was a pronounced difference between the percentage of the vote both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama got in the first round of caucuses in the Silver state and the percentage of delegates each eventually got. And while there isn't a full picture of how things shook out in Colorado over the weekend, we now know

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The Providence Journal's, Froma Harrop, ran a column of Clinton talking points this morning. In all the talk (both from her and separately from the Clinton campaign) of all the different metrics of nomination success, Florida and Michigan voter disenfranchisement and the undemocratic nature of caucuses, one thing continues to

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Let's assume for a moment that Obama wins the Democratic nomination, but goes on to lose to John McCain in the general election. Let us also assume that Hillary Clinton is true to her word and campaigns vigorously and wholeheartedly for Obama in the ahead of said general election. Finally, let's assume that the rules governin

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From the precinct level to the state convention, Hillary Clinton (ever so) slightly improved her standing in the Centennial state. The initial vote percentages (67%-32 in favor of Obama with 1% opting for "uncommitted") would have yielded a 37-18 delegate edge in a purely proportional system. With the process being filtered t

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