According to data from Hitwise, Yahoo News was the news site with the most election day traffic, followed by CNN, MSNBC, Google News, Fox News and the Drudge report.

Here’s a list of the top 10 election news sites, in terms of Hitwise’s estimate of market share:

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

Source: Erick Schonfeld, “Hitwise Ranks Election Traffic To News Sites,” TechCrunch, November 5, 2008

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