Auto-complete for “Rick Perry is” on the three big search sites on 8/29/2011.

Google Yahoo Bing
gay an idiot an idiot
an idiot crazy good
a rino a scumbag a crook
evil not a conservative bad
not a conservative a republican a scumbag
evil running for president
awesome right about education
hot
horrible
a joke

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3 responses to “Tracking Republican presidential candidates via online search auto-complete – 8/29/2011”

  1. predictor Avatar

    I’m not sure how we might interpret this, and I’m also not sure why we would leave Barack Obama out of this analysis. Granted, he’ll definitely be the Democrats’ choice, but his re-election is not as certain. From Sep-03-2011:

    Google:
    your new bicycle
    an idiot
    a cactus
    the antichrist
    a muslim

    Yahoo!:
    a muslim
    an idiot
    a terrorist
    evil
    the devil
    a liar
    a socialist

    Bing:
    your new bicycle
    the antichrist
    a muslim
    an idiot
    a one-term president
    a liar
    Osama Bin Laden

    1. statsinthewild Avatar

      I left Obama out because I was only looking at the Republican presidential nominees and how they compared to each other.

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