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Opinion: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the ol’ buzz-o-meter

By Scott Martelle
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The folks over at techPresident plugged Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton into a Google trend-search tool and came up with an intriguing find: a significant spike in interest in Clinton among Pennsylvania Web-browsers.

Getting in touch with our inner copycat, we did the same thing but checked for Ohio, which is pretty interesting given the results Tuesday. Then we did it for all subregions. There are all sorts of ways to read the charts this tool spits out, but one thing is clear -- there’s a whole lot of movement going on out there.

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-- Scott Martelle

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Scott Martelle

Scott Martelle is a former Times staff writer and member of the editorial board. He also is the author of several nonfiction books on such disparate subjects as the Ludlow Massacre and 1913-14 Colorado coalfield war, the history of Detroit, and William Walker, the pre-Civil War American adventurer who for a brief time made himself president of Nicaragua.

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