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13. In Fact, Maybe You Should Just Contact Your President.
That's the plan in Florida, Texas, California and New York—states where many Googled the hilarious terms: "e-mail President Obama." I can almost guarantee that didn't work out for them. Out on the West Coast, in Colorado, Arizona, Oregon and California, a more simple search term—"contact Obama"—registered as among the most popular. The Internet may have worked wonders in connecting voters to our future president, and this administration has agreed to be responsive. But good luck finding Obama's personal e-mail address.

14. Looks Like We've Got an 'Obama Deception' on Our Hands.
One of the fastest rising searches in regard to our president has been "Obama Deception," the title of a self-proclaimed "hard-hitting" documentary that "completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people." Comparatively, this search was most popular in Oregon, Texas and Arizona. This tells us two things. First, every West Coast hippie must love a good conspiracy documentary. And second, there is such a thing as a sore loser, whether that is Bush (Texas) or McCain (Arizona). Right?

15. Don't Forget the Dog.
Well, actually, go ahead. Like Jay Leno, and other advanced Obama topics, the search "Obama Dog" was popular in all the places you might expect: D.C., New York and Massachusetts. Meanwhile, in many of the states that went for McCain, this search was hardly recognized. If you take anything from this, it's a small sign that people who voted for Obama care about all the intricacies of the first 100 days; meanwhile, those who didn't have moved on to other things.

16. Like What?
Well to be honest, over the last 100 days, our president leaves nary a blip in the nation's top Google searches, compared with weightier topics like "American Idol," Rihanna and Chris Brown, which led Google's rising searches. Even on the last of the 100 days, Twitter ranked No. 1. So when it comes to Google, what have we learned? One hundred days is nothing compared to 140 characters.

A note on methodology: Google Insights works by normalizing all data on a scale of 100, and scaling other search terms relative to that. If you were to search "Obama" today, you'd likely get different results because Google's indexing ranks each search as a proportion of all total searches. For example, because "American Idol" was on last night, that keyword is especially popular today, which would change the relative popularity of any other keyword—including "Obama." We conducted our research on April 27 and April 28. And given the constant fluctuation of the numbers, we encourage you to look at these trends with a grain of salt. They're accurate—but they're also for amusement.

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  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 05/03/2009 9:13:02 AM

    GOP the Party for those are Powerful and Rich American only.
    GOP TAX BREAKS 5% OF TOP population -FOR PRESIDENT,SENATOR,GOVERNOR,WALL STREET EXECUTIVES,HALLIBURTON, JUDGES,TOP CIVIL SERVANT
    wow Powerful bunch.......For stupid REDNECK tell them to carry on LIES

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 05/01/2009 4:25:15 PM

    Hey Virgil...hope you and yours avoid the "Obama Flu", and are doing well...Here is an interesting update on the afore mentioned eligibility lawsuits...Seems PreaBo-Zo is misusing some of election $$$ to fight what is so "insignificant" Looks like those dawgs are still sniffing around...

    A Fortune in Campaign Funds Illegally Used to Fight Eligibility Lawsuits?
    May 1, 2009 by texasdarlin

    "The FEC allows elected officials to use campaign funds to pay legal fees only if the action/investigations arise as a result of their tenure in office or campaigns."
    When a lawyer-turned-politician-turned-president pays other lawyers nearly 700 thousand dollars in a few short months, after he???s been elected, ordinary folks might scratch their heads???

    Especially when???.many of the legal cases against the president are consistent in their simplicity. They just ask Barack Obama to show that he???s a natural-born citizen.

    Obama could???

    Choice A: Authorize the State of Hawaii to produce his long-form certified birth certificate and give Courts the definitive evidence they need to dismiss these silly eligibility lawsuits.

    Or???


    Choice B: Use hundreds of thousands of dollars of campaign contributions to oppose and defend the lawsuits, and threaten the plaintiffs with financial sanctions.

    Hmmm. Choice A, or Choice B?

    According to Politico, "the FEC allows elected officials to use campaign funds to pay legal fees only if the action/investigations arise as a result of their tenure in office or campaigns."

    That seems to be fairly straightforward rule by the FEC. So???how much of the million dollars (700k since the election and 300k pre-election) was spent fighting lawsuits by "a former presidential candidate, a former deputy attorney general, many legislators, active-duty U.S. military," and others?

    Did Obama use campaign funds to fight the disclosure of his college records from Occidental because they might show that he enrolled as a foreign citizen? Why else would he hire a high-priced lawyer whose other clients include Amazon, Starbucks, and Microsoft?

    What about Choice C? If the lawsuits are so frivolous, why not just ignore them, and let them be dismissed? Maybe we were right when we hypothesized last year that Obama is hiding the fact that his original birth certificate was sealed, and replaced with one in the name Soetoro, reflecting Indonesia citizenship.

    ....Hmmmm...looking more and more like...these dawgs are on a scent....

    NOBAMA!!!

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 05/01/2009 3:05:32 PM

    And yet I am correct, and the poster who trotted out such nonsense,is wrong.

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