Thu
Jun 4 2009
11:57:am
Goobernatorial Googling
By: R. Neal  shortURL

Number of google hits searching for:

bill gibbons: 1,850,000
ron ramsey: 747,000
zach wamp: 128,000
bill haslam: 71,700

Gibbons has an advantage of sharing the name of famous ZZ Top guitar player Billy Gibbons, and Ron Ramsey's name is pretty common. So with some refinement:

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ron ramsey governor tennessee: 23,100
zach wamp governor tennessee: 20,500
bill gibbons governor tennessee: 14,100
bill haslam governor tennessee: 6,400

(Ramsey may still have an advantage because he is Lt. Governor.)

Campaign page ranking:

gibbons2010.com: 4/10
zachwamp.com: 4/10
billhaslam.com: 3/10
teamronramsey.com: 3/10

ALSO:

Google news search:

ron ramsey tennessee: 17,542
zach wamp tennessee: 7,569
bill haslam tennessee: 5,322
bill gibbons tennessee: 71

Google blog search:

ron ramsey governor tennessee: 6,083
zach wamp governor tennessee: 4,194
bill gibbons governor tennessee: 3,742
bill haslam governor tennessee: 2,157

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You gotta love the numbers.

Submitted by bizgrrl on Thu, 2009/06/04 - 3:36pm.

You gotta love the numbers. Do you think Haslam will/can pay Google to get better numbers?

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haslam & burchett

Submitted by anon (not verified) on Mon, 2009/06/08 - 9:13pm.

A recent article said that bill was leading in the polls by better than 5/1 and this wknd their poll showed that tim burchett was leading by 4/1.

I think that both of these polls were work in progress ( think tyler harber aka cas walker in recent elections) and the results in the above post are probably a true reflection of political landscape at this time. If their polls were correct they wouldn't have felt the need to bring in Tom Ingram in such a hurried fashion. I'm just surprised this article saw the light of day in the kns.bruce

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