The Draft Gore group found another way to get some attention — charting their Web hits. In fact, on a day when the former VP won the Nobel Peace Prize and didn't ask them to stop collecting signatures on their petition, their traffic skyrocketed.
"According to the Web tracking firm Alexa.com, traffic on Draftgore.com surpassed that of Hillary Clinton's official campaign Web site by more than two-to-one that day," the group wrote in a press release this afternoon.
The group also plans more print, radio and TV ads urging Gore to jump into the race — include a radio spot titled "Florida" that will run there.
Here's the release:
The Web site of the national Draft Gore organization (draftgore.com) experienced an extraordinary spike in web traffic last weekend, pushing the number of signatures on its petition to more than 200,000 — a jump of 70,000 signatures in four days. The site received nearly 100,000 hits on Friday.
According to the Web tracking firm Alexa.com, traffic on Draftgore.com surpassed that of Hillary Clinton's official campaign Web site by more than two to one that day.
This spike in activity was triggered by Draft Gore's full-page ad in the New York Times on Wednesday followed two days later by the announcement that Al Gore was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
"Interest in a Gore candidacy is skyrocketing," said Draft Gore founder Monica Friedlander. "People are stirred to action in record numbers by the possibility of America's greatest statesman and global leader becoming the next president of the United States."
The online Draft Gore petition, currently at 208,000 signatures, calls on Al Gore to run for President in 2008. An additional 45,000 people signed a paper version of the petition, and these are not included in the online total. Both documents will be delivered to Vice President Gore's office in Nashville, Tenn.
Also, more than 12,000 liberal activists voted at Daily Kos, and 41 percent think it is "definitely not" too late for Gore to get in the race.
--Christina Bellantoni, national political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (3)
You can't run a country on a global warming or a national heathcare agenda. Where do any of the candidates stand on the hard issues, i.e. immigration, energy and taxes?
Posted by Larry Stone | October 17, 2007 3:00 AM
Gore is the most qualified person in either party to be president. He might be more electable if he ran on a third party ticket. The people are throughly dissatisfied with both Republicans and Democrats.
Posted by Erich E. Stafford | October 21, 2007 10:31 AM
Vice President Gore has posted several issue statements at current.com regarding health care, the Iraq war, and civil rights. I expect there is more coming regarding immigration, taxes, etc.
Al Gore has not only the experience, but the vision, to bring our country to the point where it is working toward the future once again.
Don't expect him to run a conventional campaign. He has spoken in a way that circumvents the MSM ~~ directly to the people. Go to current.com and look for his issue statements and comment on them. He WANTS to interact with We the People directly.
Posted by scubaval | October 21, 2007 11:05 AM