Joe on the September 22nd, 2007 The U.S. Presidential election has been heating up well before we vote in 2008 and a lot more of the ~235 candidates (includes potential, announced, running, and withdrawn) listed at http://www.vote-smart.org are taking web campaigning seriously, as they should.
Because we’re talking about web campaigning, I divided the candidate’s web site’s Alexa rank by its Google Page Rank (using 10,000,000 for the Alexa rank when none was available) to come up with a simple “web score”.
Here’s the top 5:
| # | Candidate | Google PR | Alexa Rank | Web Score |
| 1 | Barack Hussein Obama Jr. | ******* | 22,551 | 3,222 |
| 2 | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ****** | 24,093 | 4,016 |
| 3 | Ronald Ernest Paul | ** | 20,222 | 10,111 |
| 4 | John Reid Edwards | ****** | 66,688 | 11,115 |
| 5 | Willard Mitt Romney | ****** | 78,938 | 13,156 |
Obviously, Barack Obama is the web’s next SEO guru, or he’s hired a capable web marketing firm to put him on top. Will it make a difference in the upcoming election? I think so. Will it make enough of a difference? Only time will tell, but there’s still plenty of time for other candidates to take a cue from the only PR7 candidate on this list.
…and here’s the rest:
| 6 | Candidate | Google PR | Alexa Rank | Web Score |
| 7 | Rudolph W. Giuliani | ****** | 125,055 | 20,843 |
| 8 | Maurice Robert Gravel | ****** | 169,985 | 28,331 |
| 9 | John Sidney McCain III | ***** | 144,333 | 28,867 |
| 10 | Fred Dalton Thompson | **** | 139,887 | 34,972 |
| 11 | Joseph R. Biden Jr. | ****** | 222,965 | 37,161 |
| 12 | Bill Richardson | ****** | 237,610 | 39,602 |
| 13 | Samuel D. Brownback | ****** | 328,365 | 54,728 |
| 14 | Michael D. Huckabee | **** | 219,294 | 54,824 |
| 15 | Duncan L. Hunter | ****** | 397,286 | 66,214 |
| 16 | Tom Gerald Tancredo | ****** | 410,933 | 68,489 |
| 17 | Dennis J. Kucinich | 159,181 | 159,181 | |
| 18 | John H. Cox | ***** | 1,003,772 | 200,754 |
| 19 | Steve W. Cubby | ***** | 1,239,136 | 247,827 |
| 20 | John Taylor Bowles | **** | 1,039,165 | 259,791 |
| 21 | Christopher J. Dodd | 293,475 | 293,475 | |
| 22 | Alan L. Keyes | **** | 1,291,836 | 322,959 |
| 23 | George David Joseph Phillies | **** | 1,363,135 | 340,784 |
| 24 | Terry Lee Barkdull | **** | 1,400,865 | 350,216 |
| 25 | Frank Edward McEnulty | ***** | 2,665,986 | 533,197 |
| 26 | Robert G. Jackson | **** | 4,252,435 | 1,063,109 |
| 27 | Randolph Wilson Crow | **** | 4,993,909 | 1,248,477 |
| 28 | Joseph Charles Schriner | ***** | 6,258,456 | 1,251,691 |
| 29 | Joseph Martyniuk Jr. | ** | 2,552,083 | 1,276,042 |
| 30 | Dal Anthony LaMagna | 1,506,062 | 1,506,062 | |
| 31 | Michael Paul Jingozian | *** | 4,608,857 | 1,536,286 |
| 32 | Kat Swift | **** | 6,353,556 | 1,588,389 |
| 33 | Orion Karl Daley | **** | 6,621,919 | 1,655,480 |
| 34 | Lee L. Mercer Jr. | 1,739,470 | 1,739,470 | |
| 35 | Jeffrey Charles Petkevicius | *** | 5,848,018 | 1,949,339 |
| 36 | Michael Charles Smith | ***** | 10,000,000 | 2,000,000 |
| 37 | Donald Kenneth Allen | *** | 6,429,490 | 2,143,163 |
| 38 | Raymond Louis McKinney | 2,241,639 | 2,241,639 | |
| 38 | David Allen Koch | **** | 9,856,825 | 2,464,206 |
| 39 | Robert Milnes | **** | 10,000,000 | 2,500,000 |
| 40 | Peter Samuel Grasso Jr. | **** | 10,000,000 | 2,500,000 |
| 41 | Hugh Cort III | **** | 10,000,000 | 2,500,000 |
| 42 | Mildred T. Howard | **** | 10,000,000 | 2,500,000 |
| 43 | Daniel J. Imperato | **** | 10,000,000 | 2,500,000 |
| 44 | Richard Michael Smith | **** | 10,000,000 | 2,500,000 |
| 45 | Alden Link | **** | 10,000,000 | 2,500,000 |
| 46 | Keith Robert Sprankle | 2,652,136 | 2,652,136 | |
| 47 | James Hatton McCall | ** | 5,865,403 | 2,932,702 |
| 48 | Frank D. Zilaitis | 3,024,158 | 3,024,158 | |
| 49 | Mark Irwin Klein | *** | 10,000,000 | 3,333,333 |
| 50 | Michael Keith Forrester | *** | 10,000,000 | 3,333,333 |
| 51 | Kent Philip Mesplay | *** | 10,000,000 | 3,333,333 |
| 52 | Ruth Bryant White | *** | 10,000,000 | 3,333,333 |
| 53 | Susan Gail Ducey | *** | 10,000,000 | 3,333,333 |
| 54 | Edward Allan Buck | *** | 10,000,000 | 3,333,333 |
| 55 | Karl Everett Krueger | *** | 10,000,000 | 3,333,333 |
| 56 | John Joseph Kennedy | *** | 10,000,000 | 3,333,333 |
| 57 | Warren R. Ashe | *** | 10,000,000 | 3,333,333 |
| 58 | Jack Shepard | 3,428,953 | 3,428,953 | |
| 59 | James Creighton Mitchell Jr. | ** | 10,000,000 | 5,000,000 |
| 60 | Michael Moriarty | ** | 10,000,000 | 5,000,000 |
| 61 | Sal Mohamed | ** | 10,000,000 | 5,000,000 |
| 62 | Blake Ashby | ** | 10,000,000 | 5,000,000 |
| 63 | John Douglas Blyth | 5,864,685 | 5,864,685 | |
| 64 | Vernon Edgar Wuensche | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 | |
| 65 | James Wellington Wright | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 | |
| 66 | Kelcey Brian Wilson | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 | |
| 67 | Virginia Algar | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 | |
| 68 | George Brent Baily Jr. | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 | |
| 69 | Willie Felix Carter | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 | |
| 70 | Dory Frank | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 | |
| 71 | Danny M. Francis | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 | |
| 72 | Daniel A. Gilbert | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 | |
| 73 | Wrendo Johnson P. Godwin | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 | |
| 74 | Jon A. Greenspon | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 | |
| 75 | Albert Howard | * | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 |
| 76 | Bradley K. Lord-Leutwyler | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 |
Don’t forget to Digg this and link back here. I need a good page rank when I run in Election ‘12.
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on September 23rd, 2007 at 3:32 am
LOL! Cool idea :)
on September 23rd, 2007 at 10:41 am
Thanks. I like the blog and congrats on the Adsense/Adwords earnings.
on October 4th, 2007 at 9:40 am
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