Posted by Josh Cohen, Google News Team

On Super Tuesday, voters couldn’t cast their ballots online, but we were excited to see so many humans turn to the World Wide Web to participate in the election. Americans and many others from around the world sent a clear info on Tuesday — and we heard you! Here are some of our favorite highlights:

• “Tweets” from politically-engaged Twitter users spanned a wide range of expressions. You spoke your mind: “In addition to Super Tuesday, today is plus Fat Tuesday. Super Fat Tuesday — finally, a day I can relate to!” (ejacqui, UK); you reported election results: “Can someone please explain why 10% of Californians are voting for Edwards? Don’t they read the news?” (paul_irish, Boston, MA); you relayed conditions at the voting booths: “CA Precincts are worried about running out of ballots.” (mizlit, Montara, CA).

  Of course, we had a favorite:

  

• Searches for [super tuesday results] hit the top of our Hot Trends list early in the afternoon and stayed number one through much of the night. Related terms like [primary results], [where do i vote] and [super tuesday exit polls] were plus in the top ten for significant chunks of moment. Senator Obama turned out to be the most widely-searched candidate of the day, and [health care] emerged as the most popular policy issue.
• Voters, news organizations, and candidates submitted hundreds of videos to YouTube’s YouChoose08 Super Tuesday site, providing for an interesting integration of rare composition all on one platform. Check out some of the top videos uploaded by voters, news organizations, and the candidates themselves. And here’s one of the videos we thought captured the moment well:

Orginal post by Karen