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You can derive from the "Democrats" vs. "Republicans" linked with "good" question an indicator of which name appears in a positive context--"good" is associated with Democrats 77% more often.

Don't forget the sample size: almost 38 million "respondents" is many orders of magnitude larger than any public opinion poll. As long as you make the questions basic, e.g. "good" versus "bad", sampling 38 million documents and getting a strong tilt like 77% provides a meaningful measure of what's going on in (Internet) humanity's collective subconscious.

People are thinking happier thoughts about Democrats than Republicans.

A suggestion: Instead of resisting the efficacy of the Oracle at Google, see what you can turn up to bolster your arguments. What if you asked Google who's more "patriotic"? If the answer turned out to be Republicans by a large margin, would you still deny that it works?

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