Election-Trends: The Google Search Pollster

It’s been a while since I’ve looked a head-to-head matchup of Google search popularity between our recent presidential contenders. Here is the Google Trends chart comparing searches for “barack obama” and “sarah palin”:
Ever since Governor Palin was chosen as McCain’s vice president, her Google search popularity has been phenomenal - outstripping even Obama for [...]

Today, I read a Robert F Kennedy article about Sarah Palin and the Alaska Independence Party - mostly lamenting the lack of interest that the mainstream media has shown in the fact that Todd Palin was apparently a member of a secessionist party for 7 years, and that Sarah Palin addressed their convention in 2006 [...]

Today, I was interested to compare the popularity of searches for the three interviews that Sarah Palin has given, with Charlie Gibson, Sean Hannity, and Katie Couric:
Not only is the Couric spike higher, but it is more sustained over a period of five days (so far). The search peak for Palin’s interview with Sean [...]