What Went Down In The Indiana Primary

We’re always on the lookout for potential new ways to forecast election results, even as we remain skeptical about whether they work. Here’s an update on how two measures of online interest in the candidates did in the Republican race today: Google search volume continues to be a decent proxy for how Republican primaries and caucuses will play out. Trump dominated in searches all day — until Cruz announced he was suspending his campaign and achieved a Pyrrhic victory. Meanwhile, TweepsMap projected a Trump landslide based on its analysis of the geographic location of the candidates’ Twitter followers and their engagement in the last 24 hours before the primaries. On the GOP side, Trump had the most Indiana followers, and was the subject of the most positive hashtags in the state. This has less of a track record than the Google Trends approach, but at least today, in this race, it pointed the right way.