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Related: About this forumAtlantic: Google search (especially swing states) for Bain is going off the chart, chart included.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/the-scariest-chart-for-the-romney-campaign-on-bain-attacks/259869/#
Although there's some polling evidence and Mitt Romney's allies are getting worried, it's a little early to tell how effective President Obama's attacks on the Republican nominee's time at Bain Capital will be -- or how much that will affect the ultimate result of the campaign.
But we can say with some confidence that the attacks are getting Americans' attention. Via Politico's Alex Burns, here's a chart that shows that Google searches for "Bain Capital" have increased exponentially since late last week, when reports about Romney's confusing involvement -- or non-involvement --with the firm from 1999 to 2002 started to surface. The numbers along the y-axis are Google's search volume index, basically an arbitrary number that measures recent searches relative to past ones. It's the rapid growth that should be scary for the Romney campaign -- it means that voters are taking notice of the controversy, and makes it harder to change the subject to something less favorable to Obama.
The list of locations with the greatest interest has some red flags, too:
1.Massachusetts, United States
2.Virginia, United States
3.District of Columbia, United States
4.Ohio, United States
5.Pennsylvania, United States
6.Florida, United States
7.New York, United States
8.North Carolina, United States
9.Washington, United States
10.Arizona, United States
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Atlantic: Google search (especially swing states) for Bain is going off the chart, chart included. (Original Post)
grantcart
Jul 2012
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Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)1. Arizona, that's interesting!
jillan
(39,451 posts)2. We are getting bombarded with Obama ads here :) Mitt is just starting to advertise in Az, but
the Obama campaign has been going at it for about 1 month.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)9. If they can get Hispanics to vote in the same numbers as Whites then
AZ would go blue.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)3. It's where the Obama campaign is running the most ads. It is working
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)4. I'll just give them a little help.
NBachers
(17,120 posts)5. Hmmmm, clever! Let me try that again and see if it keeps working . . .
Edited to add: Yup, it works every time, over 'n' over. I've sent it off to a few friends . . .
Seedersandleechers
(3,044 posts)7. I've never seen that before.
I love it.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)6. WHAT insanely kool news.
Great metric , too....."optics" lol....
DCKit
(18,541 posts)8. OK, but how is "scumbag" trending? nt
Amonester
(11,541 posts)10. Keep it up. :)
http://electoral-vote.com/
~snip~
All the Republican candidates want to eliminate Medicare as we know it and replace it with vouchers for inadequate private insurance. But now Romney, in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club, kicked it up a notch: He wants people to wait a few more years before they can get GOPs lousy coverage.
http://healthcareforamericanow.org/2012/02/25/romney-goes-severely-conservative-on-medicare/
Why would any informed senior vote for that?
~snip~
All the Republican candidates want to eliminate Medicare as we know it and replace it with vouchers for inadequate private insurance. But now Romney, in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club, kicked it up a notch: He wants people to wait a few more years before they can get GOPs lousy coverage.
http://healthcareforamericanow.org/2012/02/25/romney-goes-severely-conservative-on-medicare/
Why would any informed senior vote for that?