Obama dominating race in cyberspace

Sen Barack Obama's website received 2.6 million unique visitors for the first week in October. McCain's website had a little more than 1.3 million unique visitors. And according to data compiled by Nielsen, Obama had 7.9 million unique viewers in September, an increase of 31 percent from August and 156 percent since June. Meanwhile, McCain had an even more drastic increase: His campaign website had 4.9 million unique hits in September, up 56 percent from the previous month and a 239 percent bump from June. "Obama comes from the culture of the Internet," said Andrew Rasiej, one of the founders of Techpresident, a website that tracks the presidential candidates' use of the Web and how campaigns use technology. "He is recognized by Internet users as their own," said Rasiej, adding that Obama has been mining the power of the Internet for much longer than McCain has. McCain's campaign earlier this year struggled to stay afloat. "The McCain campaign is still playing catch-up. His campaign almost died, but if you give him another year I am sure he would catch up," Rasiej said.