The days are getting closer for surely an election that will go down in the books as one of the all time greats…or worst depending on how you look at it of course. Unlike the previous elections this one has taken hold of social media techniques and doesn’t plan on letting go until Nov 5th.
As of today on Twitter:
Then of course LiveCrunch just posted a blog about Barack’s new Iphone App.
However Advertising Age recently published an article on how McCain’s crew has been focused on more search.:
Mr. McCain appears to be reaping the most benefit from search. He is aggressively buying Obama and Biden’s keywords as well as issues such as “Iraq surge” and “mortgage crisis.” As a result, paid search is a huge driver of his online traffic. According to data from Compete, 22% of Mr. McCain’s traffic in August came from paid search; only 14% of Mr. Obama’s traffic came from paid search.
You can check out the whole article on McCain Winning Search Ad Race.
Then there is the viral scene. On the popular Youtube
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- BarackObamadotcom
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- John McCain - page: 551,710 / Group: John McCain for President with 63,746 members, New: 772 more members, 20 board topics, 309 wall posts
- Barack Obama- page: 1,959,783 supporters / Group: Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack) with 753,495 member, New: 7,072 More Members, 557 Board Topics







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I think it will really depend on the demographics… Obama may have more supporters on the internet, but McCain may have more that are not.
~ Kristi