“Education” ranks among the top five issue-related search terms that have led Internet users to the campaign Web sites of John McCain and Barack Obama in the second quarter of 2008, according to Hitwise, a New York-based company.
Hitwise analyzed the top 200 search terms that sent traffic to each candidate’s Web site. Education ranked second, behind abortion, in top political-issue search terms that sent people to Senator Obama’s campaign Web site. Education ranked fourth—behind health care, environment/global warming, and oil prices—that sent visitors to Senator McCain’s campaign Web site. In the first quarter of this year, education ranked fourth on Obama’s site and wasn’t among the top five listed on McCain’s site.
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