The most entertaining election data of the day comes from
Google, which has
posted the most popular search terms associated with candidates
around the country. Here, for example, are the results for
Georgia’s would-be governors:
Deal is
ahead in the polls, but evidently he’s losing the
word-association race. I mean, “Related To Jimmy Carter” isn’t the
first thing I’d want people searching with my name, but
Deal clearly has it worse.
In Michigan, meanwhile, the gubernatorial race appears to be a
contest between “Net Worth” and “Not Prepared”:
“Not Prepared” has been a popular pair of words in this race:
The Democrat deployed the phrase in a gaffe last
spring and the GOP has been running
with it ever since. Snyder’s net worth, for the record, is
“in
the vicinity of $200 million.”
Elsewhere, Scott Brown’s Cosmo
centerfold is still on people’s minds, in whichever organ those
minds might be located:
Finally, these are the results for President Obama, who isn’t
running for anything this year but
looms ominously above all the Democrats who are:
The term at #3
surprises the staff of The Federalist: “The third
most-searched term connected to Obama is ‘divorce’? Really?” I’m
not so shocked: Given how hard The National Enquirer has
been
hitting the dubious idea that an Obama divorce is on the
horizon, I’m surprised the word isn’t ranked even higher. There are
people who buy supermarket tabloids, and there are people who wait
til they get home and then Google what they saw on the cover. Or,
um, so I hear.
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