29 August 2008

Carly Fiorina vs. Sarah Palin vs. Claire McCaskill vs. Kathleen Sebelius vs. Janet Napolitano

Now that we've learnt John McCain's choice of running mate, let's have a retrospective look at the female dark horses in this year's veep stakes:


Scale is based on the average worldwide traffic of "sarah palin" in all years.
"carly fiorina" 3.00
"sarah palin" 1.00
"claire mccaskill" 0.50
"kathleen sebelius" 0.50
"janet napolitano" 0

Fiorina (R) dominates the long 4-year view due to her much-publicized involuntary exit from the helm of Hewlett Packard (HP) in early 2005. So let's zoom in to the last 12 months instead:


Scale is based on the average worldwide traffic of "sarah palin" in all years.
"carly fiorina" 0.46
"sarah palin" 1.00
"claire mccaskill" 0.16
"kathleen sebelius" 0.52
"janet napolitano" 0.16

Sarah Palin (R) got the most attention here, initially due to her 2006 Alaska gubernatorial race but continuing to the present. Sebelius (D) was the only one to get in the neighborhood. How about the last 12 months?


Scale is based on the average worldwide traffic of "sarah palin" in all years.
"carly fiorina" 0.06
"sarah palin" 1.00
"claire mccaskill" 0.02
"kathleen sebelius" 0.44
"janet napolitano" 0.02

Seblius peaked a couple of weeks ago but Palin ended up with the top finish! Needless to say, Hillary Clinton (D) pulverizes this whole group in all time periods but then she was never a dark horse, wasn't she?

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