Lunchbreak blogging
Most people use their lunchbreak to run some errands or hit the gym. Not me. Oh no. I use mine to do mostly worthless but sort of interesting statistical analysis of the Colorado governor's race.
I was curious which candidate was getting the most mentions online. So I entered the following searches into Google and got the folowing results.
+"bob beauprez" +governor = 61,700
+"john hickenlooper" +governor = 41,500
+"bill ritter" +governor = 35,000
+"marc holtzman" +governor = 31,300
When I performed the same search with the added term "+2006," the order of candidates remained the same.
+"bob beauprez" +governor +2006 = 43,000
+"john hickenlooper" +governor +2006 = 28,300
+"bill ritter" +governor +2006 = 26,100
+"marc holtzman" +governor +2006 = 20,000
What does this mean? Probably nothing. But I expected Holtzman to have more results than he did. It seems like the guy is in the news every day. Instead, his rival for the Republican nomination is doubling up on him.
I was curious which candidate was getting the most mentions online. So I entered the following searches into Google and got the folowing results.
+"bob beauprez" +governor = 61,700
+"john hickenlooper" +governor = 41,500
+"bill ritter" +governor = 35,000
+"marc holtzman" +governor = 31,300
When I performed the same search with the added term "+2006," the order of candidates remained the same.
+"bob beauprez" +governor +2006 = 43,000
+"john hickenlooper" +governor +2006 = 28,300
+"bill ritter" +governor +2006 = 26,100
+"marc holtzman" +governor +2006 = 20,000
What does this mean? Probably nothing. But I expected Holtzman to have more results than he did. It seems like the guy is in the news every day. Instead, his rival for the Republican nomination is doubling up on him.
4 Comments:
Marc Holtzman is the only candidate who has not held public office. I suspect that a lot of the Bill Ritter and Hickenlooper searches pertain to their service while in public office in Denver, and that Bob Beauprez's many hits pertain to extensive coverage of his Congressional service.
Agreed. But using the + in front of governor and 2006 would partially control for that. Partially...
Beauprez still whups up on Holtzman using the following searches:
"gubernatorial candidate bob beauprez" = 898
"gubernatorial candidate marc holtzman" = 438
"gubernatorial candidate bill ritter" = 280
Obviously, the same search done for Hickenlooper doesn't really work.
Doesn't matter to me which has more exposure on the net. Holtzman/Spradley has my vote.
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