Posted on 07/03/2008 6:20:41 AM PDT by rhema
A new report shows voters are interested in the position Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama takes on abortion. The Internet traffic monitoring firm HitWise indicates abortion is now the number one political issue voters are looking for when they conduct a search on Obama’s campaign web site.
Hitwise analyzed the top 200 U.S. search terms that sent visits to the presidential candidates’ websites for the first half of 2008, revealing the types of content searched for the most among Internet users.
Issues like education, the environment, health care and immigration are important to visitors on Obama’s web site, but HitWise says abortion tops them all.
In the first quarter of 2008, abortion came in as the number two most important issue on the minds of voters looking to Obama’s web site to learn more about him. As news of Obama’s pro-abortion position has filtered throughout the nation, the abortion search term moved up to the top spot over the last three months.
McCain’s pro-life position on abortion must be more clear to voters as abortion came in as the third most important issue in searches on his web site in the first quarter but slipped out of the top five in the second quarter.
Heather Dougherty, research director for HitWise, says the topics that voters put in searches on the candidate web sites, give an indication of what political issues are most prominent on their minds.
“This has implications for what content should be featured on the candidates’ websites, and broadly across all communications with voters,” she said.
With Obama as a newer candidate with a surge in interest and popularity, his campaign web site receives 79.25 percent of online visits when compared with the traffic of the McCain site. But Hitwise shows McCain’s web site is increasing in traffic as he moved from 14.62 percent in May.
This represents a seven percent increase compared to May 2008 and a five percent increase over April 2008 traffic McCain’s web site received.
McCain’s web site is also receiving more traffic from new visitors than Obama’s. In June 2008, Barack Obama’s website received 55 percent of its visits from returning visitors and 45 percent from new visitors. McCain’s website received 21 percent of its visits from returning visits and 79 percent from new visitors.
Among all U.S. websites, both candidates saw increases in visits as Obama’s website increased 1,367 percent and McCain’s website increased 2200 percent compared to June 2007.
His position??
Standing and applauding as helpless babies are torn from the womb and murdered.
If they are interested on his position on abortion, well he approves of the killing of innocent babies even after they are born.
People might also be interested then on his position on Bisexuality and Larry Sinclair.
Well, he doesn’t want his daughter to be burdened with a baby.
Also -
See this post by ETL for a list.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039978/posts?page=7#7
“....he approves of the killing of innocent babies even after they are born.”
Obama LED the opposition to a bill that would have ensured that a baby who survived an abortion be given medical care. He was the LEADER of this opposition. In my opinion, this demonstrates Senator Obama’s complete lack of foundational moral principle. If he can be so immoral in THIS area, he will be immoral in others as well. No solid foundational principles.....
Alas, he's far from alone in being brainwashed that securing "a woman's right to choose" takes precedence over every other issue. ...despite the fact that, in contrast to the other issues I mentioned above, "a woman's right to choose" doesn't directly affect him personally. Guess he gave it some thought, because he just recently informed me he'll be voting Republican for the first time in his life in Nov.
I'm convinced that the only issue keeping countless voters on the Democrat plantation is the abortion issue.
I don’t understand why there isn’t a single MSM reporter who puts Obama’s record in perpective.
Mr Obama, yes or no:
1 ARe you for reparations to blacks for the financial losses incurred due to slavery?
2. ARe you for hand gun control in Chicago?
3. ARe you for late term abortion?
4. ARE you for higher corporate taxes?
5. ARe you for off shore drilling?
6. Are you for putting a hold on space exploration?
etc
More than 50% of UAW autoworkers now vote Republican and that is their major reason.
In partial birth abortion, the baby is pulled partially from the birth canal, and an instument is inserted into its skull to suck out its brain.
Obama voted against any sort of medical or any other help for those babies who survived abortion, but to ‘shelve’ them and leave them to die unaided.
Just because people are “interested” in his position and check out the site, doesn’t mean they “approve.”
Says a lot about the dim party. The most important issue to them is keeping it legal to execute babies.
The phrase was actually 'punished with a baby'.
I find it interesting to note that Obama is FOR killing innocent infants....but against war. Hmmmmmmm.....
keep helping out those search engines folks!
Obama abortion.
Obama infanticide.
Barak Obama dead babies.
Barak Obama supports infanticide.
Thanks. I stand corrected. I tried to find an FR thread. It may have helped if I used “punished with a baby”.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994780/posts
Yep. Of course they’ve been successfully brainwashed by the far-left activist loons that abortion isn’t execution, and that life doesn’t begin at conception. In my view the best way to counter this fatally flawed view is by showing them just how human babies in the womb are. Having children themselves often does the trick.
“despite the fact that, in contrast to the other issues I mentioned above, “a woman’s right to choose” doesn’t directly affect him personally.”
It does affect him personally though. Well maybe not directly if he’s not at a point in his life where his significant other will be faced with the choice of aborting his child, but for men in general, abortion definitely affects them personally. When their children are killed without them being able to do anything to protect them, which is arguably a father’s greatest instinct, they are affected. On the other side, when they get someone pregnant and she insists she’s having the baby and he has to pay child support, he’s affected (though not nearly as devestated; I haven’t heard of men killing themselves because they had to pay child support, but maybe I’m just not looking hard enough).
I have encountered plenty of pro-choice men, and mostly younger men. Some think it will make them look enlightened and get them dates. Some don’t want to take responsibility when they have sex and get someone pregnant. Some genuinely buy into the pro-choice line. And then there are those who mistakingly believe that they have no say because they can’t get pregnant. “It’s a women’s issue.” No. It’s a human rights issue that has deep societal ramnifications and affects everyone, regardless of gender.
No doubt — the Left’s sustained attack on the 2A has brought a lot of folks over to the GOP in recent years. Seems an increasing number of citizens are now aware of their 2A rights.
Or left to die once born. He's a monster who will bring CHANGE. There's no doubt about that.
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