Alabama Senate race 2017: Here's who will win...according to Google

If Google search results are an indicator of electoral support, it looks like Roy Moore will be the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate.

Google Trends, which tracks search interest across the platform, released data on the Alabama Senate race. The GOP runoff - pitting Moore against former Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange - is Sept. 26.

According to Google, 52 percent of those searching a candidate in the Alabama Senate race were looking for information on Moore, the former Alabama Chief Justice who resigned his seat after being suspended for defying a Supreme Court order related to same-sex marriage.

Forty-eight percent searched for information on Strange, who was named to the U.S Senate seat after Jeff Sessions was confirmed as U.S. Attorney General.

The results are as of Sept. 25 at 1:29 p.m.

Using Google Trends to predict an election is far from perfect, of course, but analysts have pointed out past success in gauging support. Case in point: Donald Trump was the most searched-for candidate in 38 states on the day before the 2016 presidential election, including the key battleground states of Florida and Michigan. Trump ended up winning the election over Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton, bolstered in part by upset victories in - you guessed it - Florida and Michigan.

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