Fun facts from the data hub at Compete, an analytics firm.

  • If website traffic equaled votes, Barack Obama would be the Democratic nominee. And the next president.

  • When interest in the 2008 race is measured by per capita visits to political blogs and candidates’ websites, New Hampshire ranks as the most politically engaged state in the nation, followed by Iowa. South Carolina shows up at number 10, and Nevada, site of the forgotten early primary this year, comes in at 13. Note for all the coastal snobs out there (myself included) — California and New York rank numbers 39 and 40 for Internet political engagement.

  • Mitt Romney is the Republican with the most online supporters. Fred Thompson comes in second place.

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.