I've got something rather simple in that a user is voting for something on the site and a part of this vote is capturing the user's email.  Creating the Document is straightforward:

DocumentType dt = DocumentType.GetByAlias("VideoVote");
            User author = new User(0);
            Document doc = Document.MakeNew(whichvote, dt, author, Model.Id);
            doc.getProperty("voteChoice").Value = whichvote;
            doc.getProperty("youtubeCode").Value = youtube;
            doc.getProperty("email").Value = email;
            doc.getProperty("ip").Value = ip; // defined prior
            doc.Template = 4407; // need to change on prod

            doc.Save();

            doc.Publish(author);

The document is created HOWEVER it is not searchable like this:

return Model.Descendants().Where("email==\"" + email + "\"").Count() > 0;

If I go into the backend and save and publish manually it will show up in that query above.. Can somone help track down what I need to do so that after creating the node I can search for it?