'Troopergate' Beats 'Choppergate' in Google
A reader emails the following analysis:
"I noticed that Google's search technology gives us another way of showing--not that we really need it, though--that Governor Spitzer has lost his PR war with Joe Bruno.
"This argument assumes that the term 'Choppergate' is generally anti-Bruno and 'Troopergate' is generally anti-Spitzer. Searching pages created over the past year for the words 'spitzer choppergate' gives us 95 results, while searching the same period for 'spitzer troopergate' gives us about 23,600 results. In Google News, the search results are 10 and 78, respectively."
Obama Vs. McCain Polling Data
- Poll
- Obama (D)
- McCain(R)
- Spread
- RCP Average
- 47.0
- 43.8
- Obama +3.2
Favorable Ratings
- Candidate
- Favorable
- Unfavorable
- Spread
- Obama
- 56.4
- 35.2
- +21.2
- McCain
- 54.4
- 37.0
- +17.4
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Azi, that is an ABSURDLY specious argument. First of all troopergate is also the name of a clinton scandal. you can note that the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troopergate address belongs to clinton's scandal. that leads to there being 10x the number of google hits for just "troopergate" versus just "choppergate". adding spitzer to the mix doesn't mean anything.