Election-Trends: The Google Search Pollster

On the day after the biggest speech in Barack Obama’s career, the Google Search Trends are all abuzz with Sarah Palin searches, and his name has dropped off the map. People are thinking about her… politically: searching for “sarah palin vp”, “mccain palin bumper stickers” and “sarah palin creationism” physically: searching for “sarah palin vogue”, [...]

Google trends isn’t giving away any secrets when it comes to possible McCain picks for vice-president: If you judge by search popularity (and I do; after all, I’m the Google Pollster), then Romney looks like the front runner. What’s most interesting about the rise in searches for Romney is that: we all know him pretty [...]