I don't have the slightest idea what's going on here:
Query String | Hit Count | Change Since 2007-10-27 |
---|---|---|
"Barack Obama" phony | 909,000 | +538,000 |
"Hillary Clinton" phony | 676,000 | +84,000 |
"Ron Paul" phony | 668,000 | +80,000 |
"John Edwards" phony | 616,000 | +40,000 |
"Mitt Romney" phony | 503,000 | +111,000 |
"John McCain" phony | 458,000 | +79,000 |
"Rudy Giuliani" phony | 404,000 | +71,000 |
"Fred Thompson" phony | 397,000 | +24,000 |
"Mike Huckabee" phony | 227,000 | +60,000 |
"Dennis Kucinich" phony | 183,000 | +25,000 |
Senator Obama managed to double his hits in a mere four days, jumping him from seventh place to a commanding lead. That's unprecedented. What happened? I don't know. I'm not going to read all 909,000 hits to find out either.
Although Rush's "phony soldiers" still turns up in a lot of the hits, that's clearly on the decline. Obama takes some phony collateral damage from this Brian Stelter piece:
Stephen Colbert's presidential candidacy may be phony, but his supporters are very real.Why? Because a Facebook group titled "1,000,000 Strong for Stephen T Colbert" has more than a million members, as opposed to Obama's "1 Million Strong Group" which has (according to this), a mere 392,000 members.
Or maybe it's his canoodling with that gospel singer who was gay, but now isn't, thanks to Jesus? This writer at the hard-left "Black Agenda Report" is pretty put out:
Barack Obama seems to believe that his personal charm can resolve the myriad contradictions of his presidential campaign. A phony "anti-war" candidate who wants to vastly enlarge the war machine, a constitutional lawyer who needs Rev. Jesse Jackson to remind him that something awful happened in Jena, Louisiana - Obama's disconnect from any actual constituency becomes more visible by the day.Ooh, that's harsh! Well, whatever the cause, Senator Obama is, at least temporarily, the Phony Candidate to beat.