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...least that's what I thought before I started analyzing the top Internet search terms about each candidate. There are indeed Web searches for Barack Obama's and John McCain's respective platforms, but those searches are in the minority. Rather, U.S. Internet searchers are seemingly more interested in irrelevant facts and bizarre rumors about the candidates and their families...
...search list for each presidential hopeful are physical stats: Obama's height and McCain's age. Also present near the top are queries for "Barack Obama Muslim," which began in earnest after Insight magazine published a story online in January 2007 claiming falsely that Obama had attended a fundamentalist Muslim madrassa as a boy in Indonesia. Meanwhile, the McCain team has seen an increase in searches about the candidate's daughter Meghan and her lunch with The Hills star Heidi Montag...
...most widely searched terms containing "Obama" over the last four weeks - it was the seventh most popular term, accounting for 0.45% of all U.S. Internet searches that contained "Obama" - was "Obama Antichrist." At first I thought it was a response to the McCain campaign ad called "The One," which ridicules Obama for having a messiah complex and which many people thought drew a comparison between Obama and the Antichrist. But an analysis of Internet search data reveals that queries relating to Obama and the Antichrist started as early as January 2008, preceding the McCain video by over seven months...
Much as there were in the days and hours leading up to the announcement of Joe Biden as Barack Obama's running mate, rumors about who really have spots on McCain's short list have been piling up all week, and all day. Mitt Romney, McCain's rival during the primaries, remains the consensus choice among party professionals. And there was a report this afternoon that Romney's sister's house in the battleground state of Michigan was given a security sweep by the Secret Service. Another report has Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, also a longtime short-lister...
Then there's the surprise category, featuring Joe Lieberman and, making a late appearance in the Veepstakes, Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Sources close to the campaign and the candidate say that if McCain could make his decision based solely on what he wants, he'd go with Lieberman, the Democratic-turned-independent Senator from Connecticut who served as Al Gore's running mate in 2000. Picking Lieberman, however, would be a huge gamble for McCain. Social conservatives, having only recently come to terms with McCain himself, would loudly oppose the selection of a pro-choice New Englander...