For years now, FHQ has trotted out a fairly simple question during the candidate emergence phase of the invisible primary. Increasingly that...

"'No, I'm not running,' Hawley told Insider in a brief hallway interview on Tuesday at the US Capitol before ducking into a...

Now that Mike Huckabee is out of the race for the 2012 Republican nomination, there is an open slot on the FHQ 2012 GOP Candidate Emergence ...

But hey, Chris Christie is surprisingly and consistently heavily searched (compared to some of the other top tier Republicans*). Maybe there...

...or has FiveThirtyEight's Ed Kilgore taken what he calls an oversimplification and applied a very narrow definition to it as means of...

For the first time this year since Bobby Jindal gave the Republican response to President Obama's speech before a joint session of Congr...

No, the Mark Sanford numbers aren't actually factored into the archived Google Trends data on the FHQ Candidate Emergence Tracker yet, ...

What is going on with the prospective GOP presidential nominees for 2012? First Jon Huntsman joins a Democratic administration, then John...

The new, embeddable Google Trends Gadget will come in handy I think. I'll still put together the monthly posts (Where is that Apri...

Now that FHQ has had a look back through the lens of Google Trends at Democratic ( here and here ) and Republican ( here , here and here ...

This is part three in a series of examinations of the fluctuations in the volume of Republican candidate Google searches during the 2008 pre...

This is part two in a series of examinations of the fluctuations in the volume of Republican candidate Google searches during the 2008 presi...

To avoid chart saturation here, I'll break this examination of 2008 GOP candidates into three parts. The first part will focus on Repub...

Yesterday , FHQ looked at the Google Trends search volume for the 2008 Democratic presidential candidates between 2005 and 2007. The goal ...

The other day I speculated about value of watching Google search trends as a means of tracking presidential candidate emergence. As I said ...

I had this link come into my inbox the other day and it really got me thinking about using this Google search data to track presidential ca...