If you’re sick of election posts… sorry. It’s all anyone is talking about today (other than Kansas State coach Ron Prince ain’t welcome no mo after Kansas destroyed his team last weekend).
Chances are you Googled something on Tuesday’s Hot Trends list. Google put together three blog posts (one, two, three) on the top searches for election day. Trends shifted throughout the day (from polling locations to exit poll results).
Here are some interesting trends, according to Whitney:
- The Huffington Post and FiveThirtyEight.com were two of the top political news outlets of the day. I wonder what will happen to the Huff’s traffic now that the election is ovah.
- Chuck Norris and Tina Fey were in the top names searched (including Obama, McCain, Palin, Bristol Palin and Colin Powell)
- Comedy Central’s Indecision 2008 was ranked among the major news networks.
- Chicago-area residents searched for Metra Schedule information - maybe to get to that ginormous party in Grant Park. I know from experience that you always want to check the train schedule before you leave the house…
- Toward midnight President Obama, Proposition 8 and CNN’s hologram technology were popular searches - as well as Obama jokes.
That was hilarious. The networks are continually trying to one-up each other in terms of election coverage doodads, and now holograms?! They are divesting themselves completely of technology that ostensibly elucidates the election stats and are now just going for flat-out eye pr0n.
“And now we turn it over to senior correspondent, Jessica Yellin, who happens to be on location at a sorority slumber party, karate fighting an alien armed with laser cannons.. Jessica?”