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In April, we sent the Democratic candidates for an at-large position on the Montgomery County Council a short questionnaire that asked why they were running, their qualifications and why voters should choose them over other candidates, among other questions.
Nineteen candidates responded, and we published each questionnaire as they were returned to us.
After a period of time, we thought it would be interesting to look at the traffic generated by each post on the Source’s website, and the number of people reached on our Facebook page.
As of June 1, here are the results for each respondent, along with links to the questionnaires:
Candidate               Web Traffic          FB Reach   Total Exposures
Jill Ortman-Fouse                         493                                480              973
Steve Solomon                               298                                444         742
Will Jawando                                 311                  378         689
Danielle Meitiv                253                                395         648
Evan Glass                                      221                                380         601
Ashwani Jain                                 209                                306         515
Brandy Brooks                181                  329         510    Â
Seth Grimes                   176                                329         505
Hans Riemer                                  188                                290         478
Chris Wilhelm                                180                                284         464
Rosemary Arkoian             179                                280         459
Marilyn Balcombe             172                                276         448
Gabe Albornoz                 165                                263              428
Hoan Dang                    148                                271         419
Michele Riley                  124                                283              407
Neil Greenberger               74                 278         352
Richard Gottfried                          121                  229         350
Cherri Branson                131                  208         339
Lorna Phillips Forde            89                  210         299
These numbers should in no way be looked at as a measure of each candidate’s relative strength going into the primary. There are too many variables affecting the traffic, such as length of time the post was on the site, the amount and type of paid or earned promotional efforts put in by each candidate and/or supporters to share the post, the relative level of social media use by each candidate’s supporters and friends, and so forth.
The real test will start with early voting next week, June 14, and end on Election Day, June 26.
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