Santorum recently tried to get Google to do away with the “double meaning” in its internet search results. Unfortunately for Santorum, Google responded to his request with a resounding “Nope,” and the alternate definition remains the top search result for both “santorum” and “Rick Santorum.”
Santorum, for one, believes there’s a double standard at play in Google’s decision, and told Politico as much:
I suspect if something was up there like that about Joe Biden, they’d get rid of it. If you’re a responsible business, you don’t let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.
However, Google maintains that it is not in the business of removing or censoring search results with the exception of “very limited cases such as illegal content and violations of our webmaster guidelines.” The company went on to point out that Santorum’s does have another option: Contacting each site where the sexual definition of santorum is used and asking their individual webmasters to remove the offending word.
The definition, which deals with a particularly messy side effect of partaking in anal sex, was established by Savage, long an outspoken gay rights activists, in response to Santorum’s stance and highly-publicized comments on homosexuality in general and same-sex marriage in particular.
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The Iowa caucuses are an electoral event in which residents of the U.S. state of Iowa meet in precinct caucuses in all of Iowa's 1,774 precincts and elect delegates to the corresponding county conventions. There are 99 counties in Iowa and thus 99 conventions.
These county conventions then select delegates for both Iowa's Congressional District Convention and the State Convention, which eventually choose the delegates for the presidential nominating conventions (The Iowa caucuses are noteworthy for the amount of media attention they receive during U.S. presidential election years.
Since 1972, the Iowa caucuses have been the first major electoral event of the nominating process for President of the United States. Although only about 1% of the nation's delegates are chosen by the Iowa State Convention (25 Republican delegates in 2012, assigned proportionately), the Iowa caucuses have served as an early indication of which candidates for president might win the nomination of their political party at that party's national convention, and which ones could drop out for lack of support.
