Voters' top question: 'Will Hillary Clinton get prosecuted?'

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last updated 19 January 2016

Curious voters took their inquiries to Google during last night's Democratic debate, and several of their most burning questions about Hillary Clinton were less than flattering. "Will Hillary Clinton get prosecuted?" topped the list of most-searched questions about the frontrunner, while the third most popular question wondered exactly how she broke the law.

Clinton's campaign encountered voters' suspicion of their candidate's activities firsthand after tweeting a quote from Clinton's debate performance: "There should be no bank too big to fail and no individual too big to jail." Many replies to the post asked if Clinton was admitting the possibility of prison for herself.

But hey, the Google trends could have been worse for Clinton: The top searches about Martin O'Malley had a clear theme of, "Who is this guy and why is he on stage?"

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.