Barely a week after Obama and Huckabee surprised political observers by winning the Iowa primary, the duo have found plenty of favor with web surfers from the Granite State.

Huckabee may be trailing John McCain as far as the polls say, but among Republicans, the Arkansas governor leads McCain and Ron Paul with the largest volume of visits from New Hampshire online, for the four weeks ended January 5th, according to Hitwise.

Democrats outdraw Republicans when considering the same time frame. Obama leads all candidates in New Hampshire visits, followed by Hillary Clinton and John Edwards.

"While Huckabee’s rise this week may be a result of curiosity given his win in Iowa, it will be interesting to see how closely Tuesday’s New Hampshire results map to Internet visits," Bill Tancer of Hitwise said in their blog.

Going into last week’s Iowa primary, Obama and Paul had been the leading Democrat and Republican pulling in website visitors.

The idea of the Internet being the great equalizer for grass roots efforts taking on established, powerful entities appeals to people with a broad range of interests. We have seen the non-stop buzz for Paul’s campaign as the latest evidence of this.

According to analytics firm Compete, Paul supporters have demonstrated how effective online tools can be in assisting in organizing events and fundraising.

Compete’s Matt Pace said the campaign’s use of Meetup.com offered a "case study" on turning online activism into offline action. Paul’s 82,000+ Meetup members held nearly 21,000 events to build support and raise funds for him.

Compete measures a metric they call Candidate FaceTime to determine how much time a candidate receives in front of people online. It looks at the total hours voters spend with a candidate on the Internet each month.

As might be expected, Paul tops the list, as people spent over 252,000 hours with him in November 2007. Another Republican candidate, Mike Huckabee, surged to second place after a viral video featuring him and Chuck Norris grabbed over 1.2 million views since its debut.

"Huckabee is the only candidate, other than Paul, whose supporters are making heavy use of Meetup.com to rally support," said Pace.

CNN’s Election 2008 poll shows Huckabee’s offline momentum matching his online fame. He ranked behind only Rudy Giuliani in CNN’s latest poll. Paul rated sixth among Republican nominees.