Top 10 Political Websites

This list features the websites for key political party websites based on US Internet usage. This ranking list has been customized to feature only select websites.

1. The Huffington Post


2. BarrackObama.com


3. CNN Political Ticker


4. Free Republic


5. RealClearPolitics


6. HilaryClinton.com


7. Politico


8. Elections: Fox News


9. Daily Kos


10. Election: MSN

Note: Hitwise data is based on US market share of visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the Lifestyle - Politics category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users. Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites.

Hitwise categorizes websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context.

Source - Hitwise - week ending March 8, 2008 - based on market share of visits.

Picking Iowa

Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards fought in Iowa's presidential caucus, a multimillion-dollar exercise.

Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee vied for the Republicans.

With President Bush constitutionally barred from seeking re-election, both parties had wide-open, costly campaigns. Obama, Clinton and Edwards spent at least $19 million on television advertising among them.

Obama, a first-term Illinois senator, stressed a need for change as he campaigned to become the first black president in history.

Arizona Sen. John McCain, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson were also on the ballot, although their aides made no claim they were in the running for a first-place finish. So, too, Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who largely abandoned the state in the campaign's final days.

Via Guardian-Unlimited