That's actually not true. Here's the past 90 days in the US for Obama (blue), Romney (red) and taxes (yellow): http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=obama,+rom

That's actually not true. Here's the past 90 days in the US for Obama (blue), Romney (red) and taxes (yellow): http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=obama,+romney,+taxes&date=today+3-m&cmpt=q&geo=US http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=obama,+romney,+taxes&... If you restrict to just US news searches (as many of the inserted results are newsy), it is similar: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=obama%2C%20romney%2C%20taxes&geo=US&date=today%203-m&gprop=news&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=obama%2C%20romney%2C%... Actually a lot of election-related queries, most of which searched less than Romney and Obama transform results in this manner, e.g. social security, health care, abortion, taxes, ohio, election and many others. Just not Romney: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=romney%2C%20social%20security%2C%20taxes%2C%20health%20care%2C%20abortion&date=today%203-m&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=romney%2C%20social%20...