Although posted last summer, Compete.com offers an interesting take on the Red State/Blue State dichotomy. Populated by dots that each represent 100 visits to the particular candidate's website, maps breakdown the geographic distribution of politically-inclined Internet users. Regardless of party, the coasts are clearly the most connected to their preferred candidate's online presence.
Summer Data
A more recent analysis was conducted in November 2007. On the Republican side, Ron Paul, though clearly not the frontrunner, commanded the online attention of the largest number of states. While the Democratic distribution evidenced significant traffic to both Obama's and Clinton's websites, Obama led in the number of states "won," as well as in the total number of "votes."
November Data
Though I doubt there will be a direct correlation between states "won" in terms of site visits, and states claimed in the general election, it will be interesting to see how close such an analysis can come to predicting the actual outcome of the election come November.
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