COMPETE.COM - barackobama.com VS hillaryclinton.com VS johnmccain.com

fingers_of_fury ... plz clarify, I want to make sure I'm straight in my understanding... Per background the ranking for the entire month of April was Obama/Clinton/McCain and now we're predicting the sequence for the entire month of May, correct? Or was the background you mentioned done in April for some largeer YTD type of time frame?

Hi valornhonor... yes to your first question. Compete.com updates the stats monthly. At the end of May, plus/minus a few days, the chart will include May 08. The May 08 stats will be used to settle this question.

Most likely the order of 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will remain the same, but johnmccain.com rising to 2nd place and hillaryclinton.com dropping to 3rd is a possibility if some news event creates a huge surge in traffic to McCain.

I'm not sure what effect a withdrawal announcement from Hillary would cause. Could it lead to a surge in traffic to her site as people visit to read the announcement, or would her stats drop as viewers focus their attention on the two remaining candidates??? Hubdubbers that choose to wager on this prediction will have to keep these possibilities in mind.

The Any Other option is included for the unlikely scenario of barackobama.com falling to 2nd or 3rd of the three or one of the three candidates sites' drops off the face of the world-wide-web due to intentional/unintentional site termination.

If a new-and-improved scandal emerges against any one of the three, I suppose that could effect visits to the site as people check to see if that candidate has posted any response(s) concerning said scandal.

and no to the YTD time frame. Just May.

Thanks, appreciate the clarification, anticpate an unusal question from me within an hour....

Wow -- 99% of predictions were wrong!
... I wonder if anyone made predictions @ 1.5%

87,000 people went to find out what's up with Hillary?

I made a pretty nice bundle on this one (3000 on a 20$ investment). I don't remember all my reasoning at the time, but I was convinced Hillary would pull it out (at least in site hits she's #1 if no where else!).