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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
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