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deckiedan on Nov 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Trends Electionland

It could also be people who had a /wonderful/ easy voting experience, and heard from some guy who reads HN that 'voter intimidation' was a trending search term, so decided to search and see what the fuss was about...

pc86 on Nov 8, 2016 [–]

This greatly overestimates the importance of HN as a source of news.

perfectfire on Nov 8, 2016 | [–]

I'm pretty sure he meant HN as a just an example. You could easily replace HN with reddit or HuffPo or CNN or [name of some political blog].

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