What's Wisconsin's favorite Christmas movie? It depends on the data-crunching
Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
So, is Wisconsin Team George or Team Kevin?
A sleighful of surveys have surfaced calculating which Christmas movies are most popular in which states. Maybe it's another sign of how divided Wisconsin is, but they don't agree on the Badger State's favorite.
"It's a Wonderful Life." To make its pick, the site mined data from Google and Rotten Tomatoes, the movie-review aggregator.
They won't get any argument from Comparitech, a website that evaluates search engines and other tech stuff. Comparitech also says the 1946 classic about small-town banker George Bailey (James Stewart) wishing on Christmas Eve that he'd never been born is Wisconsin's No. 1 Christmas movie. The site did its ciphering using Google Trends and searching for the top 50 Christmas films on IMDb.com, Internet Movie Database.