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"Americans' eyes will be on President Obama and Mitt Romney tonight, watching the second of their three presidential debates.\nAhead of their new face-off, Google Politics &amp; Elections has released seven infographics that give us a glimpse of what Internet users and potential voters are searching for on Google and how the presidential race is going.\nWhich states are most interested in the two candidates? The graphic below answers that question. Two battleground states, New Hampshire and Virginia search for both Obama and Romney and, interestingly enough, users from the blue state of Vermont search for Romney as well as Obama. The top state for Obama was the key state of Ohio, while for Romney it was Utah.\n\nFor this graphic, Google asked registered voters how the vice-presidential debate Thursday affected them. The results are close, but 24% of respondents answered: \"More likely to vote for Romney/Ryan,\" even though another Google Politics &amp; Elections graphic last week reported that Biden was the winner of the debate.\n\nWhat are potential voters watching on YouTube? Here, Obama seems to dominate. The top four videos last week were all favorable to the president. Obama's Big Bird ad recorded more than 2 millions views and the Obamas' anniversary video came in as a distant second with around 924,000 views.\n\nCheck out all the other graphics here.\n\n\n\nMashable explores the trends changing politics in 2012 and beyond in Politics Transformed: The High Tech Battle for Your Vote, an in-depth look at how digital media is reshaping democracy. Read a few of the top posts from the series:\n\nElection 2040: The First President for Digital Natives\nVoter Data: What the Candidates Know About You\nHow to Market the Next President\nGaffesplosion: The Unrelenting Hype of Modern Politics\nHow Social Media Can Safeguard Your Vote\n\nTake it with you, buy  Politics Transformed: The High Tech Battle for Your Vote on e-book and get access to four exclusive interviews!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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