Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States, according to Google Trends. Based on our previous analysis of Google Trends leading up to Super Tuesday, we predicted Obama and McCain would come out on top after Super Tuesday. As it ended up, Google Trends was only about 70% correct in a state-by-state [...]
2008 election
Google Predicts Super Tuesday Results
February 5, 2008 by Leave a Comment
According to Google’s results, Obama and McCain will be the front-runners for their parties after today. The amount of Google searches for a candidate’s last name has directly correlated with the winner of that state in every primary and caucus to date. From the Iowa Caucus on January 3rd to Maine’s Caucus on February 1st, [...]
