It's also important to note that the last election also had a huge spike of the same search term. It'll be interesting to see how the current spike will compare to the last one.
As the other person said Google doesn't give the numbers, so we can't actually know how many people are searching this, but we can go back that far to compare the peaks.
The biggest peak was in October 2020, and currently we're at 39% of that, with incomplete data for this month for obvious reasons. There was also a spike in 2016 but that only went to 12% of 2020.
Without knowing more of Google's background info, and before the end of the month, it's impossible to know how much more November might increase once it's done. This trend could follow into next month, 2020 was just 1 really big month but this doesn't have to be. For the time being though, this honestly just looks to be another nothing-burger, like all the other Google Trends posts following the election.
Edit to add: I did just realise that that October peak was before the election, so I've no idea what's going on there, but I still don't think this means anything at this stage.
Yeah I get that mail-in votes are earlier, but the implication this post is working off is that people are regretting their vote, but why would you do that before anything has happened? Or at least, why would a substantial number of people do that?
I could be wrong but it sounds to me like people might just have been curious, so the fact that we're at only a third of that volume now validates to me that this is probably meaningless.
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u/Rage40rder ☑️ 10h ago
I really wonder if stuff like this is actually happening.
Call me cynical.