MSNBC has a story today about the efforts of liberal and conservative bloggers to articially raise the search ranks of negative articles about candidates they oppose.
The idea is that if I search for "George Allen" on Google, the liberal bloggers want the macaca video to show up high in the results. ...
Continue ReadingCNET has a great article today detailing the worst political campaign sites on the web. The list mostly focuses mostly on calling out the bizarre elements of sites for obscure House candidates.
But the piece also points out a personal pet peeve of mine: campaign blogs with zero content. ...
Continue ReadingErin had a little free time today so we decided to build on our campaign study and do some quick research to see which US Senate candidates had the most popular websites. Please note that the site rank and reach per million data included in the table below is taken from Alexa. We included the blog column based on our own research....
Continue ReadingTwo pieces of news just sort of jumped out at me today:
(1) Dick DeVos, who is running for Governer in Michigan, just announced the winner of a video contest they were running on their website. The DeVos campaign invited site visitors to make their own political ads in support of DeVos,...
Continue ReadingMark Blumenthal, the man behind last election cycle's Mystsery Pollster blog, has a new site called pollster.com and it is fantastic. There is a blog that provides analysis of the latest polling data as well as a section called The Polls that aggregates all the various polls for each Senate and Gubernatorial race and select House races. ...
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