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Santorum surging in AZ, MI, and national Google searches
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Voters are hitting the polls today to vote in the Arizona and Michigan primaries. While
most pollsters
agree that Mitt Romney maintains a comfortable lead in Arizona,
polls show
him and Rick Santorum in a tight race in Michigan
According to Google Insights for Search, however, Santorum leads Romney in Arizona, Michigan, and national searches over the past week.
Posted by Samantha Smith, Google Politics & Elections Team
Top search trends from last night's GOP presidential debate
Thursday, February 23, 2012
What were Americans searching for during last night's GOP presidential debate? We monitored nationwide search trends during the two-hour event and found earmark to be the standout term of the evening.
Both earmark and the second trending term
bridge to nowhere
likely reference a heated discussion between Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney over government spending. Other trending debate searches included
Title 10
- commonly known as Title X - and Romneycare.
We also looked at search increases for the four GOP candidates. We found that Gingrich experienced the largest increase in Arizona searches during the debate, as well as the largest increase nationally. But while Gingrich saw the largest percentage increase, Santorum led in overall national searches among the four candidates, followed by Ron Paul.
Posted by Natalie Vernon, Google Politics and Elections Team
Measuring the race for First Lady with Google searches
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
While presidential candidates are usually the main campaign trail attraction, their spouses see a fair share of the spotlight. We wondered how the leading ladies compare in Google searches.
Even though Mitt Romney leads the nation in search traffic, Newt Gingrich's wife Callista ranks first among the candidates' significant others for the last 30 days. Ann Romney comes in second, followed by Karen Santorum and Carol Paul.
Happy Valentine's Day from the Google Politics & Elections team!
Posted by Samantha Smith, Google Politics & Elections Team
Visualizing Santorum’s surge in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Yesterday, Rick Santorum swept all three primary and caucus states in his ongoing battle for the GOP presidential nomination. As the Washington Post
noted
, Santorum campaigned only minimally in Florida and Nevada, instead placing much of his efforts in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri, and the effort seems to have paid off.
In Google search trends for all three states, Santorum experienced a drastic surge in searches within the last 24 hours in each state. In fact, in two of the three states, Colorado and Minnesota, search trends mirrored the first and second place finishers. In the last week, Santorum searches have increased by 262% in Colorado, 515% in Minnesota, and 386% in Missouri. No other candidate achieved even half this percentage increase.
Posted by Samantha Smith, Google Politics & Elections Team
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