Thanks to publicity surrounding Barack Obama answering the top video on 10Questions, and a continued response to email advocacy campaigns, we continued to get a lot of new visitors to the site after the weekend's surge in traffic.

We had a total of 8,200 unique visitors yesterday, bringing the total number of voters to more than 16,000, and the number of votes has broken the 50,000 mark! Users are spending an average of about two minutes on the site, and continue to view about 2.5 pages per visit.

During yesterday's MySpace/MTV Presidential Dialogue, Barack Obama responded to the top video on 10Questions, which was a question from a MoveOn member about net neutrality (a big 10Questions banner hung above the video). The event was aired on MTV last night at 7pm.

That question is still the top video on the site, and the #2 and #3 videos are still those promoted by the Marijuana Policy Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Yesterday's top referrers were Hot Air, digg.com, MSNBC, AOL webmail, Hugh Hewitt, the Huffington Post, and the New York Times. Interestingly, two of the top ten referrers to the site are Yahoo and AOL's webmail sites, which point to advocacy groups' success in bringing traffic to the site.

News about the inclusion of a 10Questions video in the MySpace/MTV event found its way across the blogosphere, and was reported by a number of 10Questions sponsors.

Kate Phillips and Ariel Alexovich at the New York Times reported on the event, asking important questions about the role that MoveOn and other large advocacy groups should play.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/moveon-moves-in-on-youth-forum/
(See our response to the Times post here.)

Also, see what the conservative video site HotAir (part of the Michelle Malkin operation and a co-sponsor of 10questions) said about MoveOn's involvement. "Traffic on the site is surging, thanks in no small part to several liberal groups sending out mass emails to their members over the weekend to submit and vote on the questions. Good for them; that's how it works," wrote Bryan Preston.
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/10/29/10-questions-gets-to-barack-obama/

Judy Breck, a blogger for co-sponsor Smart Mobs, wrote that "political partisans are beginning to get smart about mobbing 10Questions to get their preferred questions put to candidates."
http://www.smartmobs.com/2007/10/29/political-smartmobs-are-responding-at-10questionscom/

Tech, culture, and art site Laughing Squid was happy to see their friend Susie Kameny's video about warrantless wiretapping make it to the #2 spot (with the help of a push from EFF).
http://laughingsquid.com/10-questions-for-gop-candidates-warrantless-wiretapping

As we said yesterday, if you think a question doesn't deserve to be in the top ten, you can vote it down. And if you think a question deserves more attention, you can use our email and embed tools to tell other people about it and/or post it on your own site.