Google's Politics & Elections Blog has a post up comparing searches for the Occupy movement and the Tea Party. Bottom line; search traffic for Occupy Wall Street is 66% higher than the Tea Party's traffic ever was.
Another interesting trend in search traffic from the Google report: "Despite big leads in polls and search traffic for Occupy Wall Street, it is almost in a dead heat with the Tea Party for the volume of news coverage. Using Advanced Search in Google News we found that between October 7 and last week, Occupy Wall Street only barely bests the Tea Party when we examine the number of news pieces covering each movement: 29,000 to 22,000." While I don't have any doubt that the 'baggers are over-covered, terms like "Tea Party-backed Senator" and "Rep. X, a Tea Party favorite" probably have a lot to do with those numbers. Wait until we have a few "Occupy Wall Street" senators and representatives to talk about and we'll see if those stats change.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, perhaps realizing that calling a police riot "a generally peaceful resolution" to the Occupy Oakland protest was absurd bullshit, issues a second statement saying she stands with the 99%. Mitt "The Weathervane" Romney would be proud.
Boehner says he has "great concerns" that the president is overstepping his constitutional authority to deal with student loans and mortgages without congress. But those concerns aren't so great that he'd take Obama to court and risk being proven as wrong as he obviously is.
Mark this as the moment the Rick Perry campaign began to wind down.
Bad news for the GOP; the economy is recovering much faster than expected. Going to have to sabotage that right pronto.
This is censorship taken to a whole other level; North Korea basically exiles citizens working in Libya, so they won't come home and spread tales of revolution and freedom.
Finally, even millionaires want higher taxes on millionaires. In other words, Republicans are "defending" people who don't want to be defended.
