It's Election Season, and People Want to Know: Who Is Running for President?

Peter Suderman | 11.6.2012 2:29 PM

There's a presidential election upon us, and people want to know who's on the ballot. Where else to turn but the Googler?

Via The Atlantic, a graph showing the recent spike in searches for the phrase: "who is running for president."

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DJF 13 years ago

Kodos and Kang, same as every election.
nicole 13 years ago

This is how important voting is. In Chicago!

At 21, Galicia Malone of Dolton is eligible to vote for the first time in a presidential election.

As WBBM Newsradio's Regine Schlesinger reports, she's also pregnant with her first child. So when her labor began at 3 a.m., she held off going to the hospital until she was able to go to her polling place and vote.
1. MikeP 13 years ago
  
  That's shortsighted.
  
  In Chicago, her baby can vote. She should rush through labor and go to the polling place afterwards.
2. Episiarch 13 years ago
  
  Jesus Christ.
  1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
    
    Precisely. It's a religious act, not a political one.
3. Rich 13 years ago
  
  W/o RTFA I'll wager a guess as to who she voted for.
  1. Rich 13 years ago
    
    After RTFA, who knows if I was correct. 😉
    
    Also:
    
    "If only all voters showed such determination to vote," Cook County Clerk David Orr said in a statement. "My hat goes off to Galicia for not letting anything get in the way of voting. What a terrific example she is showing for the next generation, especially her new son or daughter."
    
    Orr had jolly well better hope Galacia's daughter doesn't incur mental retardation due to delayed delivery.
    1. MJGreen 13 years ago
      
      "If only all voters showed such determination to vote"? What would happen? You'd still have the same two candidates, they'd just have more votes on their side. What good does that do?
Caleb Turberville 13 years ago

"Gary Johnson is a selfish moron who would be worse than Romney."
1. nicole 13 years ago
  
  That actually might be one of the least offensive posts ever on Pharyngula involving politics.
2. Warty 13 years ago
  
  PZ Meyers is a hateful little cunt who regrets that the Soviet Union collapsed. Why do you idiots read him?
Archduke Pantsfan 13 years ago

LOL - Michael Moore will phone or text anyone who won't vote. Send their number to 810-522-8398 and he will convince them for you!
1. Episiarch 13 years ago
  
  He's welcome to call me; I'm sure he'll love it when I call him a fat cunt.
Enough About Palin 13 years ago

WTF??? Are the squirrels working overtime today?
1. Archduke Pantsfan 13 years ago
  
  They're already drunk!
Pro Libertate 13 years ago

You want to know who is running? General Zod. Only you don't vote for him, you kneel before him. Go to your precinct and kneel. That's all you have to do.
1. Jan S. 13 years ago
  
  He might give you Australia if you do.
0x90 13 years ago

"I know I've been criticized for sexualizing our POTUS," she tweeted on Monday. "But you could bounce a quarter off that butt."
1. Warty 13 years ago
  
  Four years ago, these dipshits were shitting themselves over the fact that stick-boy did three chinups before he did a speech, and now this. How fucking deluded to you have to be to think Obama is manly?
  1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
    
    Alan Alda could kick his ass, and I'm not kidding.
    1. Warty 13 years ago
      
      He's the real-life Steve Urkel. That anyone thinks he's cool just proves that you can get people to believe anything.
      1. Episiarch 13 years ago
        
        sage was right about Peak Stupid: it can never be reached.
      2. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        This administration and the reaction to it has made me drastically lower my estimation of the intelligence and rationality of the general population. And it wasn't that high to begin with.
        
        Episiarch 13 years ago
        
        Same here. And mine was really low to begin with. Holy shit people are bonecrushingly stupid.
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Yet I'm surprised. It's like with the continued popularity of reality television--I just can't believe it.
        
        Mensan 13 years ago
        
        I feel like this every day. It's bad enough that the difference between my IQ and average IQ is almost double the difference between Average IQ and mentally retarded, but then I'm confronted with an onslaught of daily reminders that average people are even stupider than I give them credit for.
  2. Dagny T. 13 years ago
    
    Either they are pretending, or they're just not that attracted to men in the first place. Those are the only two options that make any sense to me. That is a pathetic non-ass. He probably has shit skinny guy non-calves too. My brain hates me for forcing it to ponder such atrocities.
    1. Warty 13 years ago
      
      If you threw a quarter at his ass, he'd say ouch.
    2. Warty 13 years ago
      
      Oh, and here's some beefcake for you, beloved Dags.
2. Rich 13 years ago
  
  Well, to be fair, Ms Dunham was referring to that *cigarette* butt.
Proprietist 13 years ago

To their credit, maybe they're just avid CNN viewers who are curious if anyone else is running besides Obama and Romney? We can only hope...
1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
  
  Boy, that would be a great little factoid, if true. Hey, over here!
T o n y 13 years ago

Could it be due to the SNL "undecided voters" skit?
1. Certified Public Asskicker 13 years ago
  
  What is an SNL?
Jan S. 13 years ago

People Googling this must not live in Ohio, where we've seen enough political ads over the last 18 months to run for 89 days straight without interruption.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Please revisit this outside link.
GILMORE 13 years ago

Hmmm? President? What's this "running", thing? I'm not sure I understand the hullaballo... I was under the impression Our Leaders are reincarnations of the previous Great Leader, who refuses to enter Nirvana, choosing instead to return to the cycle of death and rebirth to help others become enlightened...
tagtann 13 years ago

All I know is that if Romney wins, middle class America is DOOMED!

http://www.anon-rule.tk

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