Missouri Republican voters cast ballots Tuesday in a tightly contested three-way Senate primary race, and one candidate was not only leading in the polls ahead of the vote, but seemingly running away with the race on Facebook. However, despite losing his primary race to Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) Tuesday night, there are lessons that candidates can learn from businessman John Brunner’s Facebook strategy.
Lisa Raphael (left), the social media producer at Katie Couric's daytime talk show Katie, is one of our featured speakers in Mediabistro's upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp, an online event and workshop starting June 6, 2013. Lisa will share a case study on how the hit show uses Twitter to build interest and buzz around upcoming segments. Learn more about our our twelve event speakers and register here. 
Vincent Harris, Newt Gingrich’s digital strategist, spoke exclusively to us about upgrading to timeline on a profile and a page.
Newt Gingrich just debut a new Facebook page focused on attacking Mitt Romney’s record.
The biggest day of the 2012 election season is here, but Facebook posts on the topic are sluggisth.
With nine U.S. states holding Republican presidential primaries tomorrow, do Facebook posts give any clues as to who will win?
Newt Gingrich upgraded his Facebook profile to timeline, the first of the Republican candidates to make this move.
The remaining Republican presidential contenders are rallying Facebook supporters in Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri and Maine.
Mitt Romney is surpassing the other Republic presidential hopefuls in every Facebook metric, from user interactions to overall fan growth and user engagement.
Newt Gingrich kicked off CNN’s Southern Republican debate with a tirade against the media, and the passion didn’t let up on stage or on Facebook, with posts going up at a rate of one every 10 seconds during the debate’s peak.
Posts about Republican presidential candidates are going up on Facebook every couple of minutes ahead of tonight’s final debate before the South Carolina primary Saturday.
