Kucinich website traffic surges. All other candidates' traffic drops!

[cryofan]

From www.alexa.com, I was able to obtain comparison graphs of kucinich vs all the other candidates.

The traffic for www.Kucinich.us is moving up dramatically in comparison with the other candidates.


For easy comparison purposes, I have uploaded four of the alexa.com comparison graphs to my own website http://www.mylinuxisp.com/~cryofan

You can see that http://www.kucinich.us is surging upwards dramatically, while all other candidate websites are dropping.

You can run your own comparisons from http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=6m&size=medium&url=www.kucinich.us#top by typing in the candidate website URL below the graph and hitting the Comparison button.

Alexa is able to track website hits using their free alexa toolbar, which I highly recommend!

I think it is clear that Americans are starting to realize that Kucinich is a candidate worth investigating.

[JohnKleeb]

1. At work today I saw a man with a DK sticker on the car

I didnt say anything because I was loading up another car but I smiled, and thought hope never dies. Plus I told my aunt about his universal health care idea and she liked it. Plus my cousin's wife wrote back and was proud of me for being liberal and she thinks DK is a great candiate, and btw those two are rank and file dems. Thanks. I hope people start seeing what he is and not what he aint, he aint the prettiest thing but he does have a pretty vision.

[L.A.dweller]

2. Maybe people were

checking out the Barbara Berger interview and her wonderful drawings.


:D

[Zorra]

3. Great news.

We are a very dedicated grassroots movement. We have to be. Mainstream media won't help us much. We know the revolution will not be televised. Liberate America with Special K.

[bywho4who]

4. Yes

It's the work of God :eyes:


:smoke: :hippie:

[Myra]

5. I'm so happy he's continuing to go after diebold

It's still front page on his website.

If we don't get past the voting fraud there's
little point deliberating about candidates.

[Tinoire]

6. Just a confirmation of what we already know

;)

You can't hide the light!

President Kucinich 2004

[JohnKleeb]

7. What things are gonna be better than what the media and the cynics say

:) :hi: Seems to be an ok night.

[dweller]

8. now, THIS man looks Presidential

http://resources.kucinich.us/show_image.php?id=78

that's what i want to see.

peace,
dp

[JohnKleeb]

9. He looks like one of the people

Bless him for doing that, that was a great thing to do. I think him and Gephardt are the only candiates to have marched with the unions, they arent the only ones with endorsements I know, but as far as I know, thats what I hear. Good for DK for doing this, its the right thing.

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. Despite an increase in traffic to DK's website, his popularity is stagnant

Perhaps people visit his website and are turned off by what they see there.

[Desertrose]

11. You wish....

.....not even close to stagnant....support growing all the time and getting the message out....I know its hard for you to believe, but there are many folks who are not on the internet that actually do vote!!

No lies
No spin
All truth
All the time

KUCINICH FOR PRESIDENT!!


Peace
DR

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. Every single public opinion poll show Kucinich at 3% or lower

The Iowa Caucuses are exactly seven weeks away. Tick tick...

[no name no slogan]

20. Bull

Wes Clark was just here in Minneapolis last weekend. He spoke to a crowd of supporters at a hotel and drew 300 people, on a Saturday night. (http://news.mpr.org/features/2003/11/22_helmsm_clark/)

Dennis Kucinich was here in Mid-october and drew at least 1,200 by conservative estimates and 2,000 by the highest estimate. And this was on a Tuesday night, when both Al Franken AND author Howard Zinn were in town, too. (http://news.mpr.org/features/2003/10/15_helmsm_kucinich/)

If Kucinich is so unpopular, how is it he's able to draw AT LEAST FOUR TIMES as many supporters as a supposed "top-tier" candidate when he comes to visit?

Believe the polls if you want. Some people believe in Santa Claus too.

[Freddie Stubbs]

22. If has so many supporters, why can't he raise money?

If all of these people just gave a few dollars, he would be sitting on a huge pile of cash.

You want to see who has the most supporters?

http://www.meetup.com/browse/polact/

Not even close.

[no name no slogan]

24. He IS raising money...

but his demographics are not nearly as wealthy as Dean's are, either. Your typical Dean supporter has no problem sending $100/mo to the campaign, while that same $100 to a DK supporter is a hardship.

And why are Dean supporters so sure this race is about money? ShrubCo has more money than all the Dems COMBINED and his approval ratings are still playing limbo w/ the 50% mark.

Al Gore WON in 2000, despite spending ±$60 MILLION less than the Shrub. Paul Wellstone won in 1990 by spending 1/10th of his Republican opponent. Many progressive Dems won House and Senate seats in the 1990s WITHOUT DNC financial support by running strong, people- and issue-oriented campaigns.

If you think waging money-grubbing Shrub-style campaign will win this election, by all means go ahead. Just don't be suprised when your candidate has has ass handed to him by ShrubCheneyRove Machine.

[Freddie Stubbs]

25. Dean not only has more money, he also has more supporters

A lot more supporters

http://www.meetup.com/browse/polact/

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[ThirdWheelLegend]

34. more style more money

He also has alot more media coverage. Alot more money, alot more image, alot more rhetoric.

Fortunately some of us choose substance over style.


TWL

[Freddie Stubbs]

36. Dean earned his media coverage instead of whining like Kucinich

One year ago no knew knew who Howard Dean was. His campaign built a network of grassroots supporters larger than any of his opponents. He won the MoveOn online primary. He raised the most money during the second quarter. Then press then started covering his campaign.

This strategy has worked much better than whining about lack of media coverage.

[ThirdWheelLegend]

37. MoveOn primary, glad you brought that up

Kucinich came in second right? Yes.

Wouldn't you think that would mean a proportional amount of media coverage? Yes.

Did that happen? No.

Dean received an overwhelmingly larger amount of coverage and is still receiving that. Polls at this stage are largely reflective of name recognition. How does one get name recognition? The media.

Call it whining if you wish, since that best serves your purpose of dismissing valid arguments, but here is a nice graph to view.

http://www.kucinich.us/supporter_resources/isuespdfs/TVstudy.pdf


TWL

[Freddie Stubbs]

38. Dean got the coverage due to his success with MeetUp and raising money

That COMBINED with the MoveOn victory brought about the coverage.

That graphic certainly is interesting. But it is flawed in that it only looks as the broadcast evening new. Fewer and fewer Americans watch the evening news every year. It takes no account for cable news, newspapers, of the Internet. It also does not show how much coverage some of the other candidates, such as Kerry were recieving, especially earlier in the year when they were doing a lot better.

Even if you go by those charts, you will see that Dean was always ahead of Kucinich, so he would deserve to recieve more coverage.

Only losing campaigns make excuses as to why they are losing.

[goodhue]

44. he may have less money

but Dennis has mad style

[diamondsoul]

43. Gee, could that be because meetup works

a little better for some groups of people than for others?

Here locally, our Kucinich meetups get more attendance than our Common Dreams meetups do. So what?

[loyalsister]

33. From what I hear

it's because many people like some of what he says, but according to someone I recently talked to "he's no progressive." Not everyone is fooled. For the politically naive the years of anti-choice voting and support for the flag burning amendment may be something easy to overlook. However, in my congressinal when we had a Democrat like that running and many of us voted Green.
He says some good things, but he is on the RW side of religious issues, choice. He supported a constitutional amendment to allow freedom of expression. It was a RW ploy to chip away at the establishment clause.

[redqueen]

40. I hope think you're not a Dean backer, then

Where abortion rights are apparently your hot-button issue, privatization and de-regulation are important to me. That's one reason I think many would vote Green if Dean were to win the nod.

[LuminousX]

13. As I mentioned to another

Alexa shouldn't be used for political analysis.

Please take note of the scale of those graphs. Even though the lines look like they are converging, they still have a very wide gap.

[Hawkeye-X]

15. Yes..

The thread was started by Tinore and basically discusses the same thing.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=108&topic_id=92091

Hawkeye-X

[Hawkeye-X]

14. Did we do the alexa thing last week

Deja vu.. and it's from Tinore..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=108&topic_id=92091

Hawkeye-X

[cryofan]

16. Well, Dean keeps dropping, and Kucinich keeps rising, so...

...I thought we needed an update.

It's a BITCH when your candidate peaks too early, ain't it?

[Freddie Stubbs]

17. This peaking early is awful!

I am sure that all of the other candidates are glad that they are not in Dean's shoes right now.

[LuminousX]

18. Let's look at some numbers, shall we?

Reach per Million 3 Month Average: Dean 266.5 Kucinich 34

If you judge it by just the past week, which increases the error in the reporting due to a smaller sample size, Dean is at 185 and Kucinich is at 43.5. As soon as Dennis breaks 100 or if Dean falls below 100, let me know. Otherwise, you are grasping at straws looking for some faint hope that your candidate is surging.

And I feel a need to remind Kucinich supporters, that even if they surge pass Dean, they still have Clark, Edwards and Kerry to deal with. Kerry won't gladly step aside for Kucinich.

[madfloridian]

19. Darn that Dean! He's peaking again???

He is always doing that.

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[Tinoire]

26. You keep repeating that ... and yet...

and yet everytime I click on the link you provide, it's from another fine DUer. All the credit on research for this one goes to someone else... True I used it once in a later post but I did credit it to the proper DUer.

Do my posts haunt you in your sleep or something that you would imagine them everywhere? ;)

[diamondsoul]

30. I think you got it, hon!

And worse want's me to "take in stride" and my answer is a resounding NO!

Beat me whip me make me feel cheap but turn me off Kucinich....Not happening!

[LuminousX]

21. It is all the women looking for a Presidential husband

Google Search on Dennis Kucinich

The most consistent news Dennis has gotten has been about his bachelorhood. He'd be wise to use this to leverage more and more press coverage regarding his campaign.

[AP]

23. I have a theory about the Edwards numbers.

According to Alexa about 1/3rd of the people who go to the Edwards site go to the Blog (compared to 6% for Dean).

The Blog announced that there would be no updates through thanksgiving. You could contribute to old threads, but there were no new threads. It looks like the numbers dropped steeply over those four days.

Elizabeth Edwards, who is pretty active on the blog, came on strong with three posts yesterday.

It will be interesting to see if those numbers go up again.

[AP]

27. My theory about Kucinich surge at end of November:

His supporters work for a living, and they work long hours at exhausting jobs. They didn't have a chance to check out the site until the Thanksgiving holiday. This is cool for Kucinich.

[Alex146]

28. I've been to the NRA and GWB sites before.

So what? Dose that mean Bush is "a candidate worth investigating"?

Alex
Just sayin'

[AP]

31. Psst. That cuts both ways.

Discount the traffic both ways. Still, overall increases reflect growing interest (or a desire for info which the media isn't satsifying).

[goodhue]

32. kick n/t

[rbnyc]

35. kick

:kick:

Thought it was a good time to kick this.

:hi:

[OhioStateProgressive]

39. what is funny is that some people will still be shocked

they will still be shocked when Dennis does well

crazy, huh?:)

[wiley]

41. I hate the media,too

Good to see DK go after the BS media. Even Dean realized it was a Gore idea after a while and started imitating DK.

Wait,what is that fragrance?:think:

[goodhue]

42. surge

Bet http://www.kucinich.us/index.php is getting a lot of traffic today after last night's debate. The Kucinich insurgency is kicking into higher gear. Go, Dennis, go!

[goodhue]

45. culture corner

One of the many great features on Kucinich website is the culture corner . . .
http://www.kucinich.us/culturecorner.htm