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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

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.