The search trends for both candidates have been going back and forth over the past month as stories occur in the news cycle. Most of the search traffic in Virginia for these two candidates has been in the DC Metro area. After that, Charlottesville, Roanoke, Lynchburg, Harrisonburg, and Raleigh-Durham round out the Top 5 metro areas with Virginia search traffic for McDonnell and Deeds. If you look at specific cities, Fairfax and Richmond are where most of the search interest has been in Virginia.

The next chart compares the two candidates nationally.

The results nationally are almost identical for both McDonnell and Deeds. The top 3 regions searching for the two candidates are DC, Virginia, and California. Richmond and Washington are the top two cities nationally search for the Virginia candidates.

I did a comparison of Bob McDonnell and McDonnell Thesis for the past 90 days both nationally and in Virginia. There was a spike at the end of August for the thesis search nationally that died out right after that. Results for that comparison in Virginia had negligible results on searches for the thesis.

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