“For Republican candidate sites, Hitwise showed official campaign sites promoting John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Duncan Hunter and Sam Brownback all dropped in share, while maintaining the four lowest rankings also held in August. McCain’s site traffic fell the most of the four, from 12.5 percent in August to below 7 percent last month.
Paul’s site lost 16 points, falling from over 42 percent share of traffic to Republican candidate sites in August to about 26 percent in September. Traffic to the official site for Mitt Romney dropped by more than half to around 8 percent share among Republicans, moving from second to fourth place in September. “
This is encouraging, but I wonder how it all fits with the Rasmussen poll numbers which are not encouraging. Note McCain, Guiliani, Hunter, Brownback who already had the lowest numbers continued to drop. Guiliani on the low side of these numbers yet his poll numbers are the highest. This doesn’t fit.
That's 'cause all the DU'ers and Daily Kussers were too busy drooling over the Nobel Peace Prize going to their hero to do their usual spamming of the polls/sites.
I think at most this is an expression of interest, about wanting to learn about the candidate, not about support. The Ron Paul difference may be attributed to his constituency having to go back to school.