[lbo-talk] Just 53% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism

[Politicus E.]

Hi.  For the geeks, below I report what is to me some interesting data
about Google's relative search volumes (i.e., for the web search as
opposed to the news search ) for the term "socialism."  When I began
this, I had hoped that I would perhaps come a quantum closer to
understanding what the population of U.S. internet users consider to
be socialism.

The time period under consideration is the past 90 days, for the U.S.
only.  These data were compiled with Google Insight for Search;  you
can see the results at http://tinyurl.com/cfgdu3.

The top five U.S. states, measured as relative search volumes for the
term "socialism," were (1) Nebraska,
(2) Utah, (3) New Mexico, (4) Kentucky, and (5) Idaho over this time period.

The top five U.S. cities were (1) Phoenix, (2) Atlanta, (3) Denver,
(4) Chicago, and (5) Austin over this time period.

The top five U.S. searches related to socialism were (1) communism,
(2) socialism and communism, (3) socialism and capitalism, (4)
capitalism, and (5) Obama and socialism over this time period.

The U.S. searches with the most growth, related to term socialism,
were (1) fascism, (2) capitalism vs socialism, (3) capitalism,
socialism, and communism, (4) U.S. socialism, and (5) capitalism.

If you are interested, take a look at the international results (see
http://tinyurl.com/crcn69).

To conclude, I didn't get very far in understanding what the
population of U.S. internet users consider to be socialism.

epoliticus

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