per day for the last 90 days.
English posts that contain Neutral
per day for the last 90 days.
Going to technorati and running these yourself will give cleaner and more useful graphical results.
Of greater interest politically is the interplay between frequency of terms concerning impeachment and terms related to attacking Iran. The phrases here are "attack Iran" and "impeach Bush." In an oversimplified game scenario, "attack Iran" chatter can be defined as reflecting an adminstrative move, while "impeach Bush" reflects a Congressional move.
Frequency of blog mention is assumed to have some (unmeasured) correlation with public interest in the phrase's concepts, response to media coverage and administration and/ or Congressional push.
Posts that contain "attack Iran" per day for the last 360 days.
Resizing the window shows that the solid block on the right of the chart representing a persistent increase in chatter about "attack Iran" began immediately after the 2007 inauguration. At that point in time, mentions of "attack Iran" roughly tripled and that level has been maintained generally, although there's been some downward drift recently.
Posts that contain "attack Iran" per day for the last 90 days.
Emboldened by Democratic victories in the November elections, there was increased talk of impeaching Bush at that time. Leading up and through the January inauguration, there was again increased discussion of impeachment. Increased mention of "attack Iran" followed both of those spikes in impeachment talk.
Posts that contain "impeach Bush" per day for the last 180 days.
Posts that contain "attack Iran" per day for the last 180 days.
In the most recent round the roles were reversed. The increased "attack Iran" chatter preceded the "impeach Bush" chatter.
One important fact is that other than phrase selection real world events at the international level are ignored completely in observing these leads and lags.