Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) may not have won the CNN debate Tuesday night, $4. But his performance apparently instigated an intense amount of online interest in his candidacy.
Google Trends $4 of searches for the various candidates during the debate.
And Sanders, the chief rival to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, dominated in every single state.
Here's a side-by-side map of the US before and after the debate:
Before and after: America visualized in search interest on $4 candidates$4$4
As the maps show, Sanders was already fairly dominant in online-search interest. This could be because Clinton has been a national figure for two decades and the public is already familiar with her.
But there were three other Democratic candidates on the stage.
Google Trends also provided an eight-minute-block ranking of the five Democratic candidates throughout the debate and found that Sanders only briefly dropped out of his No. 1 position twice. Both times he quickly returned to his status as the most-searched candidate.
