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Google Searches for “register to vote” are up in August

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Searchers were clearly inspired by the DNC to look for where to register to vote. This graph shows Google searches for “register to vote” that were performed by people in the state of Florida: This trends seems roughly the same in other states: a peak early in 2008, and now a second peak in August. [...]

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Searches for “born alive” way up in August

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Searches for the words “born alive” are way, way up: In case you’re wondering, no, “born alive” is not the name of a suddenly-popular Motown song. It’s the name of Illinois and federal legislation that Barack Obama didn’t vote for, and the pro-life blogosphere is going ballistic about it. The top search results on Google [...]

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“barack obama muslim”

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Today, I’m looking at a search that is truly over the hill. As you may remember, long, long ago, some people seemed concerned or confused about Barack Obama’s religious orientation. And verily, they did some searching on it. See this chart, which shows the popularity of the search “barack obama muslim” on Google: As you [...]

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