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It would seem that people have either made up their minds, postponed a decision, or plain don't care. Regardless, statistics indicate that online interest (as represented by searches and traffic) in the presidential election is waning.
Hitwise data provided by Heather Hopkins shows that U.S. searches for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama peaked in mid-February. Then a decrease occurred, and she writes, "Internet searches for the Democratic candidates' names have dropped to the lowest point since the week ending December 29th for 'barack obama' and the week ending January 5th for 'hillary clinton'."
Hopkins also notes, "It's not just the Dems that are losing momentum - visits to the Politics category overall follow the same pattern as do searches for 'john mccain'."
A graph from Compete proves the point. Although not identical, traffic patterns to JohnMcCain.com, HillaryClinton.com, and BarackObama.com have the same sort of peak-then-plummet shape that Hopkins's data formed. The candidates' sites lost 37.9, 28.3, and 32.8 percent of their audiences, respectively, between February and March.
Maybe the major news agencies will pick up on this trend and give us all a break.
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The news agencies will interpret this drop as a failure and, rather than give up, they will redouble their efforts to generate more traffic. Lord, have mercy!
Wouldn't it be great if electing a president would actually solve our problems. It won't. It can't because it doesn't address the fundamental problem.
The problem isn't that the wrong guy is in the White House, as true as that may be. The problem is the White House! The problem is that we live in a culture gone mad, and at the center or pinnacle of that culture is the White House. The guy in the oval office isn't the problem, we are! We get the leaders we deserve. We elect people like us. Those we elect are representations of us. Lord, have mercy!
Anyone that want's the job shouldn't have it for reasons of insantiy. They are all promising to save the world. Isn't that God's job?
And when did the US become a democracy. I thought we were a democratic republic. I don't remember voting onchanging the fundamental character of our government.
Grumble, grumble, mutter, mutter...
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