POTUS: Who's Winning On Google?

Found this little bit of metricizing interesting.  Coming from Google politics:

With the Iowa caucuses only a few days away, Ron Paul has maintained his slim lead among likely voters, with all polling firms but one finding Paul leading by single digits for the past two weeks.

Online, however, the Texas libertarian has little competition. Paul’s search term totals haven’t just vastly outperformed those for his fellow candidates in Iowa, New Hampshire and nationwide over the past months; [ron paul] is among the most popular News Search queries as well, exceeding even [christmas] over the month of December.

Back in Iowa, which hosts the nation’s first caucuses, only two News Search terms, [iowa] and [news], are more popular than [ron paul]. And nationwide, the only other 2012 presidential candidate making the list of top News Search terms is [obama], which boasts only half as many queries as [ron paul], which has more than doubled in nationwide volume over the past 30 days.

The article points out that after Ron Paul, Texas Governor Rick Perry is the 2nd most popular Republican search query in Iowa - leading all other Republican candidates. Of course how that all translates - well you'll have to read the rest of the article check out the charts here.