Even though Gilmore isn’t getting as many questions as the other candidates, he is drawing lots of search interest on Google, along with Fiorina, dwarfing the other, more familiar candidates on stage with them. Meanwhile, the other candidates who have agreed to take the stage for the main debate later tonight are all being outsearched, as usual, by Donald Trump by an enormous margin.
Ben Casselman
Mike Huckabee says we’ve lost 5 million manufacturing jobs since 2000 — that’s true. But believe it or not, the federal government hasn’t grown in that time; in fact, federal government employment is down slightly since 2000. (Those weird spikes are temporary workers hired to conduct the decennial census.)