Election Reform, Fraud and Related News. Sunday, 4/6/08

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Measuring country's political pulse now an electronic pursuit
By Frank Davies
San Jose Mercury News

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Evidence abounds this presidential election year that the Internet is increasingly competing with TV, newspapers and other traditional media outlets — and sometimes beating them — as a primary source of political news. | INTERACTIVE: Primary map, calendar

The trend is having a big impact on how candidates run their campaigns, and it’s also launched new ways to help trend-spotters measure voter interest in candidates and issues.

Consider:

• At last count, Sen. Barack Obama’s entire, 37-minute speech on race in America had been viewed 3.9 million times on YouTube. That set a record for a presidential candidate video and surpasses the total of people who watch cable news on a typical night.

• In Pennsylvania, with less than three weeks to go before the Democratic primary, interest in Obama is surging among Internet users in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, but Hillary Clinton rates the higher “Yahoo buzz” in Reading and smaller cities. In New Hampshire, Yahoo searches shifted significantly to Clinton among older Web users just before an upset victory attributed to older voters.

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