Election-Trends: The Google Search Pollster

The 3rd debate didn’t seem to create much of a blip in Google search. “joe the plumber” seems to be ready to fade from the public consciousness. And with doom in the economy, our minds are turned to entertainment. It’s not enough for politicians to solve our financial problems, they must also [...]

Buzzing in Google’s Hot Trends this evening are two fun searches: “obama tax calculator” and “palin as president.”

The first search (hotness: “on fire” as seen in the pic) refers to the tax calculator created by the Obama campaign, which tells me that not only will my taxes go down, but Barack Obama will personally come [...]

Google Hot Trends for October 7th, post debate at about 9:55 PT include a host of new searches related to the infamous “that one” comment by McCain:

that one
mccain that one
mccain calls obama that one
that one debate

Ouch - that one’s gonna hurt. I think it’s pretty obvious that McCain was just saying “that guy,” and [...]