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Re:Google Trends Electionland by deckiedan on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:04AM (#12901307)
It could also be people who had a /wonderful/ easy voting experience, and heard from some guy who reads HN that 'voter intimidation' was a trending search term, so decided to search and see what the fuss was about...
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Re:Google Trends Electionland by pc86 on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @01:33PM (#12902716)
This greatly overestimates the importance of HN as a source of news.
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Re:Google Trends Electionland by perfectfire on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @01:48PM (#12902849)
I'm pretty sure he meant HN as a just an example. You could easily replace HN with reddit or HuffPo or CNN or [name of some political blog].
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