The race for the presidency is still trudging along, but on the web, it’s a complete landslide for Barack Obama.

Compete.com did an interesting study about Obama’s dominance of the web scene over Hillary Clinton.

Most interesting is Compete’s FaceTime metric, which measures the total amount of time spent spent with the candidates on the biggest social networks and video sharing websites. Obama leads Clinton by 78% to 21% over these large networks in March. As Keanu Reeves once said, “Whoa.”

Another interesting statistic is Obama’s 4 to 1 advantage on Wikipedia article hits in March. While for some it seems ridiculous not to know what kind of guy Obama is, a lot of people just don’t know who he is yet, so that’s good news for his campaign that more and more people are educating themselves about Obama.

He’s also winning on website visits by people in Pennsylvania. The last time Clinton really had an advantage here was back in early March around the time of her victories in Ohio and the Texas primary. She also got close to Obama during the Bosnia sniper controversy, but probably for all the wrong reasons. Since then, Obama is stretching out his lead on website hits in Pennsylvania.

I still check out Digg quite a bit, and it’s obvious that Digg is extremely pro-Obama. I don’t know if I’ve seen a single pro-Clinton or pro-McCain story reach the upper echelons of Digg. Pro-Obama stories that, for instance, show the context of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s quotes, rather than just the awful sounding soundbites, have been Dugg to high levels, one in particular well over 3000 times.

Thanks to Techcrunch for breaking the story.

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