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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Politics

Local Media Firm Makes Prediction

Posted by on Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:00 AM

After analyzing some 40 Web-related measures, including site traffic, YouTube viewers, search engines and social networking sites, Richmond-based Madison+Main, Advertising & New Media, is betting on Barack Obama to win the presidency.

Dave Saunders, company president, writes about his team's findings, naturally, on the firm's blog.

Some of the stats included these breakdowns: McCain's Facebook page had 624,000 supporters to Obama's 2.4 million. McCain's Web site received 4.3 million visitors in October compared with Obama's 7.9 million visitors during the same period.

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