Election-Trends: The Google Search Pollster

I keep seeing searches in Google’s hot trends that are related to Cindy McCain’s age: “how old is cindy mccain”, “cindy mccain age” and so on. Here’s the graph comparing Google searches for “john mccain age” and “cindy mccain age”: I’m glad that we can at least say that we are significantly more interested in [...]

Here is a graph that compares the popularity of Google searches for “creationism” vs. “intelligent design:” Searches for the term “creationism” are roughly constant through the years from 2004 through 2008. Although the intelligent design movement has been active since the 90s, searches for “intelligent design” were very low prior to 2005. The search spiked [...]

Here are the top Google “Hot Trends” today that are related to Sarah Palin, the McCain VP pick: sarah palin alaska gov. sarah palin governor of alaska todd palin wasilia alaska mccain running mate mccain palin mccain vp sarah palin vogue magazine governor palin mccain vice president alaska population sarah palin vice president palin investigation [...]