Hitwise announced that Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson’s website was the most visited website among all presidential candidates for the week ending September 8, 2007. Fred08.com received 34% of US visits amongst all the presidential candidate websites for that week. Barack Obama’s website received 13.49% of US visits for last week, the second most visits among all candidates. Following Obama’s website was Republican candidate Ron Paul’s website, which received 12.88% of visits. Visitors to Fred Thompson’s site were primarily Male (65.56%) and older (40.28% being 55 or older) during the four weeks ending September 8, 2007. Of all traffic to Fred08.com, 10.86% of it came from Tennessee online users.
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Top political Web sites in September 2007 |
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| Candidate | Web site | Share |
| Fred Thompson | www.fred08.com | 34.73% |
| Barack Obama | www.barackobama.com | 13.49% |
| Ron Paul | www.ronpaul2008.com | 12.88% |
| Hillary Clinton | www.hillaryclinton.com | 10.38% |
| John Edwards | www.johnedwards.com | 6.52% |
| Source: HitWise | ||