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Politics is a popular topic at Hair Design Team. "The funniest part are my clients who say Obama is the Antichrist," Cannon said. "I just laugh." Because after months on the fence between the two candidates, Cannon has come down on Obama's side, and the reason is simple: "The economy is terrible, and he is more for the working...
...most widely searched terms containing "Obama" over the last four weeks - it was the seventh most popular term, accounting for 0.45% of all U.S. Internet searches that contained "Obama" - was "Obama Antichrist." At first I thought it was a response to the McCain campaign ad called "The One," which ridicules Obama for having a messiah complex and which many people thought drew a comparison between Obama and the Antichrist. But an analysis of Internet search data reveals that queries relating to Obama and the Antichrist started as early as January 2008, preceding the McCain video by over seven months...
...clear what spurred this particular search to start, but looking closely at the searchers' related Web behavior may give clues to why they're continuing to query "Obama Antichrist" at all. One simple way to understand searcher intent is to analyze, in aggregate, which of the search results people tend to click on. After searching for "Obama Antichrist," people, predictably, tend to go to a blog dedicated to the topic and political blogs commenting on the McCain ad and its connection to the theory. But the most visited search-result site was Snopes.com (16.7% of all visits...
...presidential race is remarkable for the amount of crucial information that is available - and is being purposefully funneled - over the Internet to voters, from YouTube videos to campaign ads to blogs that track every word and movement of the candidates. "Obama Antichrist" is an extreme example of Internet misinformation, but maybe it's a sign that we should approach this onslaught of information with some skepticism...
Just in case you're still wondering whether Barack Obama is indeed the Antichrist, I'll save you a trip to Snopes.com. The site has declared this particular urban legend false...