Posted on 02/09/2011 5:47:23 PM PST by Brices Crossroads
For the first time, as of today, private citizen and putative GOP Presidential Candiate Sarah Palin has eclipsed the sitting President of the United States, Barack Obama, in google hits. Entering the names "Sarah Palin" and "Barack Obama" generates the following results:
"Sarah Palin": 78,100,000
"Barack Obama": 65,700,000
This is a stunning development that is unprecedented. Google hits are indicative of public interest in a person and what they have to say. No one should command more public attention that a sitting President of the United States. Yet a private citizen, who holds no office and has not even DECLARED, much less SECURED, the nomination of her party for the Presidency even now commands a higher level of public interest and attention than the current occupant of the Oval Office!
To get a little perspective in how earth shattering this circumstance truly is, notice that Palins' alleged competitors for the GOP nomination run up the following number of hits on Google:
"Mike Huckabee": 1,250,000;
"Mitt Romney": 2,630,000;
"Newt Gingrich": 2,290,000
Even George Bush, a recent two term President generates only 26,400,000 google hits, a fraction of Palin's total. His brother Jeb, often mentioned by the stop-Palin fanatics, generates a meager 835,000.
The ridiculous notion being pushed hard by Democrat push polls such as PPP and CNN and even Establishment polls such as Rasmussen that Palin is actually trailing one or more of these dwarfs is belied by these and other objective indicators. In political terms, Sarah Palin is an order apart, immensely above all her GOP competition and now eclipsing the President of the United States himself. Barack Obama is getting a taste of the dust in which she will leave him when the landslide breaks in November 2012.
OK, now thats just the coolest thing i've read this morning. ;o)
:-D
Yea and AMEN!!!
Intentionally subjecting myself to watching two preening blowhards exchanging phony smiles, or watching a bloated bog-mik lobbing softballs at a plastic lawn-toad is not my idea of a mentally healthy pursuit.
I'd rather pull out my own fingernails with vice-grips. thanks all the same...
;-\
I’ve wanted those glasses the first time I laid eyes on them.
They've 'fixed' it. In just five days Google's numbers have changed from
"Barack Obama": 65,700,000
"Sarah Palin": 78,100,000
to
"Barack Obama": 93,100,000
"Sarah Palin": 51,300,000
They've taken 26,800,000 hits from Palin and reassigned them to Obama and added 600,000 hits, all to Obama in just five days. Don't laugh. Its their practice run for counting the votes in 2012! Have they any other chance then?
Yeah I’m sure they did that.
The original reason of course, was that people don’t use buma’s 1st name. He’s just “buma”.
But that doesn’t matter to google. They fixed it anyways.
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