Category: Politics
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Auto-complete for search “Rick Perry ” on Google over the last couple of weeks. The last row is the polling percentage based on Real Clear Politics polls. 8-17-2011 8-30-2011 9-6-2011 9-9-2011 9-12-2011 for president for president for president for president gay gay gay gay gay for president wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki for president website…
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So, I’ve got a lot of blog posts that I meant to publish last week, but I never got around to it. Here is a graph I made using the the auto-complete terms from Google, Yahoo, and Bing for republican presidential candidates. I looked at the five top auto-completes from each site and scored each…
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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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The tables below are for the Google and Yahoo search “Michele Bachmann “(including a space after the last name) for the various dates indicated in the table. Each column has the date of the search and the top five Google or Yahoo auto-complete terms for the search. Michele Bachmann – Google 8-17-2011 8-22-2011 8-23-2011 8-29-2011…
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If you don’t want to read this whole thing, just check out the graph: Multidimensional Scaling: Republican Candidates – 8/16/2011 I was having a conversation with some friends today and someone mentioned that Rick Perry might have problems in the election because there were rumors he was gay. So I went to google and typed in…
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It’s that magical time of year again. The three weeks the rest of the country and I care about college basketball. Check out the StatsInTheWild NCAA basketball top 25. So here it is. The StatsInTheWild annual NCAA tournament preview. Teams that should have gotten in but didn’t: Seton hall – I realize it’s hard to…
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This is from a while ago (Nov 18, 2008), but it’s still interesting: “Zogby Engages in Apparent Push Polling for Right-Wing Website” Cheers.
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Here is a nice little graphical display of how the Supreme Court’s religious make-up has changed over time. I sure do love a nice graphical display of data early in the morning. (Yes, I do consider 10:37am early in the morning.) Cheers.
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