Killing Time

<p>I’m not saying this will work. But it is a good way to kill time while we’re waiting for the polls to close.<br />

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Check out Yahoo!’s <a title="Political Dashboard" href="http://news.yahoo.com/election/2008/dashboard" id="tlc0">Political Dashboard</a>, and pay special attention to the buzz column, both nationally, and by state. Those numbers represent search activity on Yahoo!<br />

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I started looking after Joshua Levy pointed me to a piece he wrote for techPresident after the South Carolina primary.</p>

<blockquote>Obama experienced a spike in attention the day before the primary, while Hillary Clinton buzz went south, and Obama was consistently ahead of Hillary every day except January 22, the day following the CNN debate in South Carolina.<br />

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<p>Levy isn’t claiming any definite link, and knows there are lots of factors at work. But he says this year, the outcomes of races have often tracked the online attention that candidates get.<br />

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Happy clicking.</p>