Posted on 09/17/2008 8:03:41 AM PDT by markomalley
Exactly how broad is the reach of this online political earthquake known as Sarah Palin?
Check out the numbers: More than 1.1 million people read the Alaska governor's Wikipedia article within the first 36 hours following her introduction as Sen. John McCain's running mate, according to the online metric site Compete.com. In fact, Palin's Wikipedia article clocked in as the most popular on the site in the month of August. Michael Phelps, the 14-time Olympic gold medalist, placed second.
YouTube has been flooded with Palin videos -- some of them snarky and mean, others equally effusive and elated. Before her announcement on Aug. 29, there were about 300 Palin-oriented videos on the site. Now it's more than 130,000, ranging from television clips spliced and uploaded countless times, to serial parodies that mock the Republican vice presidential candidate.
And in her first two days in the national spotlight, U.S. Internet searches on all things Palin -- her photos, her biography, her family, anything -- outnumbered any other politician in the past three years, says Hitwise.com, which also monitors Web data. In many cases, her name was searched alongside the word "hot."
Bill Tancer, Hitwise's general manager of research, says that on the Richter scale of online search activity, Palin registered a magnitude 10. Tancer, author of "Click: What Millions do Online and Why it Matters," told The Trail: "The reaction to her, in such a short period of time, has been nothing like we've seen before."
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PRAISE GOD.
PLEASE, LORD, MULTIPLY the effect many times over through 4 NOV.
Sarah, you have redefined: LIPSTICK!!! I love it!!!
If you have the time, read the comments there, below the article -- and leave one of your own (you don't have to register). The liberal loon base is out in force.
Done.
Pretty funny comments!
Get this one posted by "frightened normal person":
With someone like Sarah Palin in office we're one step closer to being like any other religious fundamentalist nation. Fundamentalist zealots will try to box us all in if they can. Whether it's a cross or a burka, religious extremism leads to wars and restrictions. Putting people with views as backwards as Palin's will lead us into the dark ages.
I'm starting to think that some Obama supporters are, speaking as kindly as I can, troubled people.
Leftists are the most paranoid, fearful people on the planet. How do they drive cars while in a fetal position?!
There, I fixed it for you.
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