Google Search trend: Wendy Davis Filibuster more Popular Than Ted Cruz’s
At the height of Cruzapalooza, a number of conservatives claimed the press was ignoring Cruz’s ‘filibuster’ while they’d all but gone giddy over Wendy Davis’ filibuster in the Texas state legislature. Some reporters even fell for it. Tone can be subjective. But at least in terms of the quantity of press, the claim seems demonstrably false inasmuch as the national political news has been consumed by Cruz both before and after as well as during his ‘filibuster’ speech.
But look at this.
I credit my colleague Hunter Walker who flagged an early version of this a few days ago.
This is from Google Trends and looks at the scale of searches for “Ted Cruz” and “Wendy Davis” over the last six month. The spikes show the period of their respective filibuster events. When we first looked at it the ‘search week’ wasn’t complete yet. So we didn’t have full data. But now we do.
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