‘Did Joe Biden Drop
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Out’ Google
Scarches Spike on
Election Night,
Suggesting Many
Americans Had No
Idea He Wasn’t
Running
Joe Biden dropped out of the
race in July and endorsed
Kamala Harris
Did Joe Biden
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out
Search term
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United States Past 30
Interest over time
TUO
75
5U
25
Oct 5
Oct 15
Oct 25
Nov 4
drop
days
On the day of the presidential election in the United States, searches for ‘Did Biden withdraw from his candidacy’ surged.
It is presumed that people who did not know that Biden withdrew his presidential candidacy in July only found out about it and searched for it when they went to vote at the polling place.
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10% Commenter
Remember the day after the Brexit vote came back
and the top Google search was “whatistheEU”
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thesourpop 3h
“Is Britain part of the EU’
“What does leaving the eu mean”
“WhatistheEU”
all very real trending searches on the
of the vote
in mid 2076
102
Top
day
In a similar case
On the day of the Brexit referendum
‘Is the UK part of the European Union?’
‘What does it mean to leave the European Union?’
‘What is the European Union?’
There are cases where the number of searches has increased rapidly.
This indicates that there are more voters who go to the polls without knowing the important details of the election than expected.