Sauerberg2008.com v. DickDurbin.com

As part of our regular efforts (at Prairie State 2.0) to monitor the regular online "goings-on" of politicos, policy wonks and political parties here in the Prairie State, we'll occassionally do head-to-head comparisons of the Web sites of these people and organizations.

Since we recently looked at the online efforts ot U.S. Senate candidate Steve Sauerberg, we decided it would be fitting to do a head-to-head comparison of his Web site and that of incumbent Dick Durbin.

As you can see from the graph above, Durbin has been pretty steady for the past year. Sauerberg's traffic started rising from his initial announcement in December 2007 and took a sharp increase right before the February Primary. That's not surprising, especially considering the aggressive email push by the state Republican Party.

Durbin's traffic over that same time has remained steady - not too high, not too low.  He is considered to be a safe incumbent, he had no Primary opposition, and the focus of all the Dems was on the Obama-Clinton matchup for most of the winter and spring.

What should worry Sauerberg, however, is the fact that now, just as his site traffic should be making a steady increase from now through Election Day - it is taking a dive.  Sauerberg and Durbin are on opposite trajectories - Durbin's going up, Sauerberg's going down.

Not a good place to be for an underfunded, underdog challenger.