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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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Missouri Candidate Wins Facebook Race But Loses Election

Jennifer Moire — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:31:12 +0000

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.

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Why Gingrich Has A Facebook Timeline Profile And Page

Jennifer Moire — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:47:04 +0000

Newt Gingrich has made Facebook a cornerstone of his communications strategy and online brand. The former U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives was the first of the 2012 Republican presidential candidates to introduce timeline to a Facebook profile, as well as being the first to launch a Facebook timeline page that directly critiqued an opponent, Mitt Romney. continued…

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Gingrich Creates Timeline Page Attacking Romney

Jennifer Moire — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:58:14 +0000

Newt Gingrich just debut a new Facebook page focused on attacking Mitt Romney’s record.

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Super Tuesday's Here, But Do Voters On Facebook Care?

Jennifer Moire — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:55:48 +0000

The biggest day of the 2012 election season is here, also known as Super Tuesday, but the sluggish frequency of Facebook posts so far suggest voters might be suffering from fatigue.

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Santorum's Facebook Fans Silent Before Super Tuesday

Jennifer Moire — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:42:44 +0000

With nine U.S. states holding Republican presidential primaries tomorrow, do Facebook posts give any clues as to who will win? continued…

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Newt Gingrich Upgrades To Facebook Timeline

Jennifer Moire — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:02:14 +0000

Newt Gingrich upgraded his Facebook profile to timeline, the first of the Republican candidates to make this move.

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Santorum Braces For Win In 2 States, Facebookers Rally

Jennifer Moire — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:56:36 +0000

The remaining Republican presidential contenders are rallying Facebook supporters in four different states’ races happening this week.

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Mitt Romney Blows Away The Competition On Facebook

Jennifer Moire — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:12:57 +0000

Despite two average debate performances in South Carolina and news this week that he actually lost the Iowa caucus, Mitt Romney is surpassing the other Republican presidential hopefuls in every other Facebook metric, from user interactions to overall fan growth and user engagement.

These details appear in a new infographic from Socialbakers at the bottom of this post.

Using its social media analytics platform, Socialbakers says it reviewed 10 million Facebook pages and places, and billions of individual user interactions to compile the results. If the election were held today, Socialbakers concludes that Romney would win based on Facebook user sentiment alone.

Here are some of the highlights from Socialbakers’ report:

Facebook User Interactions

Throughout the past 30 days, Romney had the greatest number of interactions* by Facebook users to his posts, 60,000 more than Paul, four times more than Santorum and more than three times than Gingrich.

Fan Count

Romney has maintained the greatest number of Facebook fans since July 2011. Ron Paul trails in number of fans, followed by Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.

Fan Growth

Since September 2011, Romney has maintained his fan count lead by sixfold when compared to Newt Gingrich’s fan count and approximately two times that of Paul.

Talking About This

Romney has nearly five times the number of people talking about him on Facebook when compared with Gingrich, and fives times the number of people talking about him when compared to Santorum.

Do you think Facebook metrics will accurately predict the winner of the GOP presidential primaries?

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Candidates Had Facebookers Fired Up During Final Debate

Jennifer Moire — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:16:31 +0000

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.

It’s the last time the candidates would be together before Saturday’s key South Carolina primary. Highlights follow below.

Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich railed against CNN moderator at the top of the debate in response to a question about his ex-wife’s interview with ABC News. That outburst not only resulted in a standing ovation from the audience, but also had Facebook users sharing the video clip of the attack in their posts, at a rate of one post every minute.

Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney’s comments about living in the real streets of America and his answer about the timing of his tax return release — which resulted in boos from the crowd — were echoed on Facebook. One Facebook post read,

Hey Mitt, would one of those streets happen to be Wall Street and Easy Street?

Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum knocked Newt Gingrich for having “grandiose” ideas when he was Speaker. The former senator had a solid debate performance, standing strong on his pro-life stance and defending SOPA and internet regulation. One post summed up his performance this way:

Rick Santorum 2012! Let’s hire the government as our babysitter, right? Because apparently we’re all fucking 3 years old and cannot make our own decisions, so we need people like Rick Santorum to make sure we don’t do anything he doesn’t like in bed or on the internet.

Ron Paul

Although Ron Paul was largely silent in this debate, he did have a few moments that his large fan base on Facebook didn’t overlook. Following an exchange with Rick Santorum over abortion, the clip was shared over and over again on the social network with the headline, “Paul Schools Santorum During GOP Debate.”

Another Facebook user said:

Santorum hurry up and drop out. You are a moron and attacking Ron Paul won’t help you.

Some polls show Gingrich either leading in the Palmetto state, or closing the gap before Saturday’s primary.

Readers, who do you think will win the Republican nomination for president?

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Facebook Braces For Fireworks In Tonight's GOP Debate

Jennifer Moire — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:58:36 +0000

Breaking news involving each of the remaining candidates has posts about the GOP going up on Facebook every couple of minutes ahead of tonight’s final debate before the South Carolina primary Saturday.

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What Businesses Can Learn From U.S. Politicians On Facebook

Jennifer Moire — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:50:00 +0000

A new study from iContact reveals that Facebook is not only the most favored social network among the Republican presidential candidates, but that businesses can learn a thing or two from the campaigns with respect to engagement, fan growth and branding.

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UPDATE: Facebook Buzzes Ahead Of Thursday's S.C. Debate

Jennifer Moire — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:58:50 +0000

Thursday night’s CNN Republican presidential primary debate in South Carolina will be the last debate that Facebook users can react to before voters goes to the polls on Saturday. And Facebook is already awash in comments ahead of the duel.

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No Debate: NBC News/Facebook Effort A Success

David Cohen — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:21:16 +0000

Sunday’s NBC News/Facebook Republican presidential debate resulted in more than 45,000 comments on the social network, and over 4,500 questions were submitted, according to a note on the U.S. Politics on Facebook page.

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Will Facebook Debate Spur A Huntsman Shakeup In NH?

Jennifer Moire — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:00:44 +0000

Sparks flew at the Facebook/NBC News “Meet the Press” Republican Candidates debate ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.But will the drama affect the outcome of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary?

The issue before the first primary in the nation is not who will win — most polls indicate that will be Mitt Romney.

Despite the blows he took at Sunday’s debate, Romney still has the most Facebook fans of all the GOP candidates at more than 1.2 million, adding nearly 5,000 new Facebook fans in the past day.

The bigger question is, who will capture second place?

Jon Huntsman appears to be the man with the momentum. Here’s a look at where the candidates fighting for second stand using Election Tracker 2012.

Jon Huntsman

While Huntsman had a strong debate performance Sunday (see his post-debate Facebook message at the end of this post), he hasn’t seen that translate to Facebook enthusiasm quite yet.

He remains in ninth place among the GOP contenders in Facebook fans, with 33,396. That’s roughly half the fans of his next closest competitor, Rick Santorum, who saw a bump in likes after his Iowa caucus win. In the past seven days, Huntsman has added 2,772 new Facebook fans.

At least someone — or three — in his family have a strong social network presence. Three daughters have taken to Twitter, @Jon2012Girls, to pump up their dad’s candidacy.

Ron Paul

Despite two polls Sunday night showing Ron Paul in second place, experts predict his New Hampshire race may be faltering as Huntsman closes in, with Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich on his heels.

Paul remains a solid second in total Facebook fans among the contenders with more than 702,329. He added 3,296 fans in just the last day, one of the highest daily totals among all elected officials.

Rick Santorum

Talk about an Iowa bump! Rick Santorum, the man who came from behind to virtually tie Romney last week, has seen his Facebook fan page growth steady. But not before garnering more than one-third of his total Facebook fans in the days following his improbable caucus showing. Will waning enthusiasm online, and lackluster debate performances, indicate a stall in his campaign?

A note about the Facebook debate: The integration of Facebook into the event coverage really worked. NBC News used the last 15 minutes of the debate to ask the candidates questions from the “Meet the Press” Facebook page, where more than 4,600 comments were shared, and posts were culled from the social network and featured on-screen during the program. (see above.)

Readers, do you plan on tracking the results of the New Hampshire primary on Facebook?

Photo: courtesy Associated Press

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