Ron Paul leads Google Trends.

[123tim]

"Ron Paul" seems to be the most searched for candidate according to Google Trends.

It always bothered me that there didn't seem to be a scale in the y position of the Google trends graph. I always wondered if different scales were applied when I searched for the trends of the different candidates.

For example, searching for "Ron Paul" and "Newt Gingrich" separately, yields two graphs where it would appear that Newt Gingrich has more searches directed towards his name as opposed to Ron Paul in 2011.

Newt Gingrich
http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=newt+gingrich&date=all&geo=all&graph=weekly_img&sort=0&sa=N

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Ron Paul
http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=ron+paul&date=all&geo=all&graph=weekly_img&sort=0&sa=N


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Today, I discovered that I can combine the two search topics. This applies the same scale to both search terms....As I suspected; Ron Paul actually leads in Google searches:

Red = Ron Paul
Blue = Newt Gingrich
http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=++newt+gingrich,+ron+paul&date=all&geo=all&graph=weekly_img&sort=0&sa=N


Also notice also that Newt Gingrich leads in the bottom part of the graph called "News Reference Volume", which I assume is the amount of times that the Media references the candidate.

Please correct me if I made any errors :)

Google trends can be found here:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=+&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

Search terms are combined by simply searching for both terms separated by a comma.

[hazek]

I just want to point out two things:
1. in 2007 we saw the same thing, go and look it up
2. it is the "News reference volume" graph that really matters

[HOLLYWOOD]

Notiable points:

1. Ron Paul tops in internet activity of all Presidential Candidates

2. Ron leads in intnet activity, EVEN though, News coverage is less than half of New Gingrich or Mitt Romney

3. Romney's internet activity is so low, it doesn't even register on the charts, EVEN though Mitt Romney blows the entire field away in Face Book "LIKES" Can you say Fraudulent numbers on Romney's Face Book activity? You Betcha!

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/mzcmdr/RonPaul_Internet.png