October 29, 2008 08:20 PM UTC

Colorado Loves Us Some Political Websites

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• by: Colorado Pols

As the Denver Post reports:

A greater percentage of Coloradans search political websites, including those of presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama, than Web users anywhere else in the country, a national study shows.

“More than residents of any other state, Coloradans are following the election the closest, at least online,” said Matt Pace, director of Compete, a company that analyzes the Web searches of 2 million people across the country.

One in eight Coloradans, or 12.4 percent, of about 40,000 tracked in the analysis visited a candidate’s website or top political blog during September, Pace said…

The data doesn’t break the users down by political party, but a total of 73,291 visits were made to McCain sites and 136,276 to Obama sites.

But what we really want to know is, how many McCain Blog Team hoodies were given out in Colorado? A pity that the bulk of our pro-McCain commenters here at Colorado Pols vanished right around the same time Republican funding did, we were hoping they could tell us.