Presidential Candidate Thompson Draws Traffic

Newly declared Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson had more visitors to his Web site than any of the other candidates according to Hitwise for the week ending September 8, 2007.

Fred08.com received 34 percent of U.S. visits among the entire presidential candidate Web sites for that week. Visitors to Fred Thompson's site were primarily male (65 %) and older (40% being 55 or older). Of all traffic to his site, 10 percent of it came from Tennessee online users where he was Senator.

Other presidential candidates who sites did well were Democratic candidate Barack Obama who's site received 13 percent of U.S. visits for last week, the second most visits for all candidates. Close behind Obama's Web site was Republican candidate Ron Paul's Web site which received 12 percent of visits.

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