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Sen. Mitch McConnell’s Campaign Uses Facebook To Entertain, Persuade Voters

Jennifer Moire — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:50:22 +0000

From cat videos to “The Harlem Shake,” the 2012 social election is all but a distant memory, as Republican candidates are taking to Facebook in new and creative ways to stay one step ahead of the competition in the 2014 cycle.

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Facebook Engineering Manager Andy Barkett Joins Republican National Committee As CTO

David Cohen — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:59:57 +0000

The Republican National Committee tapped Facebook’s ranks in its search to fill its newly created chief technology officer position, announcing the hiring of Andy Barkett, an engineering manager at the social network.

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Mitt Romney Breaks Facebook Silence To Wish Paul Ryan Happy Birthday

David Cohen — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:44:36 +0000

Is there a better reason to break a period of Facebook silence than wishing a friend and colleague a happy birthday? Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took to the social network Tuesday to acknowledge the 43rd birthday of his running mate, Paul Ryan, marking Romney’s first post of 2013 and just his third since Nov. 7, the day after Election Day.

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Facebook Releases 2012 Year In Review, Allows Users To Follow Suit

David Cohen — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:48:46 +0000

With 2012 drawing to a close, Wednesday was year in review time at Facebook, as the social network released its 2012 Year in Review, as well as instructions for its users to create their own year in review posts.

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Will Mitt Romney’s Facebook Friends Comfort Him In Defeat?

Jennifer Moire — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:59:54 +0000

Reports indicate that former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is experiencing “sustained boredom” following his loss Nov. 6. But the real question is: Will the government let him keep his nearly 12 million Facebook friends to comfort him in his loss? The Facebook pages of both Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, have been largely silent since Election Day, except for a sweet photo of Romney hugging his wife, Ann, that was shared in a Thanksgiving Day post.

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Facebook By The Numbers: The 2012 Presidential Race

Jennifer Moire — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:34:43 +0000

President Barack Obama had three times as many Facebook friends as his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, on Election Day, and increased his share of Facebook friends 15 times over from 2008, according to a new list of data that examine the 2012 presidential race by the numbers.

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Facebook App Proves A Game-Changer for Obama Campaign

Jennifer Moire — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:57:12 +0000

Answer: What is “targeted sharing” on Facebook? The question: How was the Obama campaign going to reach the millions of young people under 29 who had no listed phone numbers and flew under the radar — just out of reach of pollsters and volunteers — using the cellular network to communicate?

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Facebook Mines 2012 Election ‘I’m Voting’ Data

Jennifer Moire — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:23:27 +0000

Facebook’s Data Science team parsed the 9 million users they say clicked on the I’m Voting application, offering a glimpse into not just who was voting, but sharing, commenting, and liking across Facebook Nov. 6.

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Romney Losing 11 Facebook Likes Per Minute

Jennifer Moire — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:26:05 +0000

What happens to candidates’ Facebook pages after an election? It’s a question no one has really had to address before, but prior to the 2012 election, more than 110,000 political Facebook pages were created, including more than 11,000 for candidates, so it’s hard to ignore. The Washington Post first picked up on the drop in Mitt Romney‘s Facebook fans Friday, when the GOP presidential nominee’s page was hemorrhaging 593 likes per hour.

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Did Facebook Engagement Translate To Wins In Key Congressional Races?

Jennifer Moire — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:29:04 +0000

The 2012 election postmortems continue, and research published in Capitol Hill newspaper Politico indicates that congressional candidates with the social media mettle to engage their Facebook fan bases got much-needed bumps on Election Day.

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U.S. Election Day Transcends Borders On Facebook

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:41:41 +0000

People all over the U.S. were posting about either President Barack Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney on Facebook during Election Day. But buzz about ballots wasn’t limited to the 50 states. Facebook released statistics Wednesday showing that the U.S. presidential election was popular in Canada, the U.K., and Australia.

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Facebook Insights From The First Social Election

Jennifer Moire — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:35:21 +0000

Now that the 2012 presidential election is in the record books, we can start to examine more closely the role that Facebook played in the first “social election” and how the winners and losers used the platform in the waning hours of the race.

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Facebook’s Voting Reminder Has Curious Timing

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:05:02 +0000

At the start of Election Day, Facebook pointed out that users will gradually see a prompt at the top of their page (and as a notification on their mobile app) to declare that they’ve voted and motivate friends to do the same. However, many users noticed that the prompt seemed to be timed to follow moments of inactivity, presumably following a user’s journey to the polls.

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On Election Day, Facebook Is Buzzing About Romney, Obama, Voting

Jennifer Moire — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:58:59 +0000

Facebook is maximizing its Election 2012 resources on Election Day Tuesday, and users can get a sense of what voters are talking about on the U.S. Politics on Facebook page. Not surprisingly, the first release of Election Day data from the Facebook Talk Meter finds that the word “election” is dominating news feeds, followed closely by “Obama,” then “Romney,” with men scoring higher than women on the 10-point scale.

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Facebook Encourages Users To Vote In 2012 Election

Jennifer Moire — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:54:25 +0000

It’s Election Day 2012, and with democracy in full swing, Facebook wants users to know how they can participate. Facebook users will have a hard time missing the reminder.

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