Just like last time, people were Googling topics and words as they came up in tonight’s debate. Hot trends as of 7:55 (PT) include:
- joe the plumber
- repudiate
- reputiated (sic)
- cockamamie
- repudiate definition
- who’s winning the debate
I love the searches that come up for words that people don’t know. John McCain repeatedly called on Obama to “repudiate” statements made by congressman John Lewis, and obviously a lot of people don’t know the meaning of the word. But isn’t ‘cockamamie’ kinda self-explanatory? (McCain used the word to describe Biden’s idea to split Iraq into three states.)
Update… later in the evening… here are a few more searches that popped up on Google Hot Trends later during the debate:
- education vouchers, school vouchers (did Obama mis-speak and say he supports them early in the debate? – he opposes them)
- congressman lewis (mentioned above, he made some comments about McCain and Palin that McCain wants repudiated
- sarah palin autism (McCain on Sarah Palin and autism:
And I just said to you earlier, town hall meeting after town hall meeting, parents come with kids, children — precious children who have autism. Sarah Palin knows about that better than most.
- troops to teachers – McCain mentioned this program, which will allow troops to move from the battlefield right into teaching, without all that fuss and bother of getting credentials
- litmus test, lipness test -However you spell it, this is a reference to the question of whether the next president will require their supreme court nominees to pass a test on Roe v. Wade. Both candidates claim they won’t, and we know they’re both lying through their teeth.
Well, it was by far the most watchable debate in this campaign. G’night now,
-The Google Pollster
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