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Hitwise came out with some stats to show how Election Day mattered and brought the top news sites their traffic. CNN was ranked on the top, as it saw a 146 percent spike in traffic, whereas MSNBC.com, Fox News, and the Drudge report all witnessed quite an increase as well. ABCNews.com saw traffic go up by 113 percent over the day before, which was quite a decent tally. CNN Political Ticker blog also saw a 122 percent rise, where Twitter traffic also rose 43 percent, and Twitter Election 2008 saw a walloping 1,100 percent increase. Though where some witnessed traffic going up, some had the bad luck of recording the day’s traffic as going down: Time.com –21%, Current TV –53%, and Slate –33%. The table below lists top election news sites, and here are the names included in that list:

1.Yahoo News
2. CNN
3. MSNBC
4. Google News
5. FOXNews
6. Drudge Report
7. The New York Times
8. FOXNews.com Elections
9. USA Today
10. ABCnews.com
11. The Huffington Post
12. AOL News
13. Real Clear Politics
14. The Washington Post
15. CNN Political Ticker
16. CBSNews.com
17. Time
18. Electoral Vote Predictor
19. The Politico
20. MSN Election 09
21. Townhall.com
22. Free Republic
23. Daily Kos
24. Current TV
25. Slate
26. FiveThirtyEight
27. Michelle Malkin