Google Data Reveals More People Praying For Donald Trump Than Hillary Clinton 2016 Presidential Election
Google Trends is outlining popular search terms in Google, and it has gotten pretty interesting. The entire world is watching the Election 2016 Polls today awaiting for the result, and the search engine giant Google has summed up its election-related search strings, which is surprisingly quite amusing.
Google's real-time map of voter issues is totally captivating: https://t.co/1slOzMK7jU pic.twitter.com/z4MT754KYy
— WIRED (@WIRED) November 8, 2016
Wired outlined Google’s voter issues, the search strings being: long wait times, provisional ballots, inactive voter status, voter intimidation, and voting machine problems. While the report is not reflective of the actual election problems in the United States, these signals may serve as early signs of developing stories.
“Pray for Trump” is 180% higher than “Pray for Hillary” https://t.co/Ae7DnqLOSl pic.twitter.com/aLthiwlSOL — GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) November 9, 2016
People are praying more for Trump than Hillary. Google Trends tweeted that the search string “Pray for Trump” is 180 per cent higher than “Pray for Hillary.”
'Trump path to 270' is 52% more searched than 'Clinton path to 270' in the past day#Election2016 pic.twitter.com/vJDFuHs1rU
— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) November 9, 2016
While the “Trump path to 270” is 52 per cent higher than the “Clinton path to 270” in the previous day.
Top searched issues in #Iowa this #ElectionDay LINK: https://t.co/D2r3D8XA7K pic.twitter.com/PonTC1DLsD — GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) November 8, 2016
And in a report by CNBC, more than 7.5 million people in the United States shared that they have already cast their votes. Facebook data also showed that the most shared election-related issues are religion, crime, racial matters, economy, and criminal justice. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton also shared the majority of mentions on Facebook.
Search interest in each state right now on Google#ElectionNight
LINK: https://t.co/EgVf5E2dpp pic.twitter.com/8CNw5fNU1Y
— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) November 9, 2016
Moreover, in Google, race and economy issues were most prevalent in Google search site, along with the Affordable Care Act, gun control, ISIS, climate change, national debt, and the voting system. Further, the election 2016 results in major states such as Florida, California, Texas, Indiana, North Carolina, and Virginia.
America really wants to know who @taylorswift13 is voting for pic.twitter.com/dW6CyFmJyD — GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) November 8, 2016
Meanwhile, the Internet got quite curious who people had voted for. Google Trends tweeted the most searched “who is __ voting for?” and the most popular search string is “Who is Taylor Swift voting for?” followed by “Who is Monica Lewinsky voting for?”
CNBC also writes that Google and Facebook’s earnings reports were affected by the 2016 election, adding that even YouTube noticed more interest in its video-sharing community, being the three presidential debates ranked as the most-viewed political live streams with over 8.5 million hours watched live which is five times more than the 2012 presidential debates.
