Election-Trends: The Google Search Pollster

Do Google search trends indicate voter preferences?  I’m guessing they do.  At the very least, you can be sure that Google searches indicate the public’s level of interest and curiosity about a candidate. I looked at search trends over the last 90 days for these three likely presidential contenders’ names: mitt romney michelle bachmann rick [...]

over 44k Facebook friends and this is the first time I’ve heard of Herman Cain.  But have a look at the search trends for his name over the last month: I’m really surprised to see that there were as many Google searches for Herman Cain as there were for Tim Pawlenty in the week of  [...]