Ron Paul Internet Trends

This link will redirect you to Google trends for 2007 U.S. internet searches and news volume for Ron Paul vs Guiliani, Romney and McCain:

http://tinyurl.com/2on3e4

This one will take you to the same for Ron Paul vs Clinton and Obama:

http://tinyurl.com/34oftr

Probably won't surprise *you*, but quod erat demonstrandum for skeptics: Since mid-April, Ron Paul has maintained an overwhelming lead in voter pursuit of candidate information, even as he consistently receives the least media attention

Insofar as it doesn't surprise, it still offers some real interesting data when you adjust down the "all subregions" menu to specific states. For example:

http://tinyurl.com/29wqyx

Note also that from the U.S./2007 pages, Iowa is currently the top subregion when ranked by Ron Paul, and indicates his name the most searched among Republican candidates -- but, go to the Iowa page, there's not enough search volume to render a graph. This is true narrowed to any Republican candidate.

But compare these with attention to bar graphs for cities:

http://tinyurl.com/2jgmgr

http://tinyurl.com/38crpr

Which I think suggests the relevance of the Iowa Caucus to the Republican nomination is exaggerated, unless one accepts the weird hypothesis that the substantial number of Republicans in that state just don't have the internet access of its Democrats.