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actually Google Trends predicted it:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=vote%20for%20hillary...

it predicted obama as well in 2012

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=vote%20for%20romney,...

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Google Flu Trends "predicted" the flu season, and then in 2013 it "predicted" it incorrectly:

https://www.wired.com/2015/10/can-learn-epic-failure-google-...

For the election, Google Trends isn't showing any data on the US state level, and you might recall that Hillary won the popular vote averaged over the entire US.

Interesting how Hillary is the only one who was referred to by first name. "Vote for Clinton" didn't register as much as "Vote for Hillary"

maybe it was to differentiate her from bill clinton?

She's the only one that had a spouse that was formerly President and or otherwise very famous. Hillary's campaign and supporters heavily marketed her by first name rather than last name to try to bolster her own political identity.

My impression is that this was a choice of her campaign (differentiate from Bill Clinton? make her seem friendlier?).

Jeb Bush and Bernard Sanders also had campaigns centered around their first names.

I find it odd that you refer to "Bernard" when he's almost universally referred to as Bernie, but simultaneously call John Bush "Jeb". I'm missing whatever the intended meaning of the way you wrote these names was.

I did not know that Jeb wasn't his real name, that's all there is to it.

holy cow. mind blown. did not know that wasnt his real name either.

you mean Jeb! right?

I have noticed there is a strong bias that women are more often referred to by their first name compared to men in the same position. For example in discussing college professors, a single-word identifier for a male professor is most often their last name; for a woman it is much more often their first name. Keep your ears open -- you will hear it!

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