The candidate that controls the "social media" will win the presidential election.

[kentuck]

It happened with Barack Obama in his last two presidential elections. The Republicans had the money but they did not have the organization on the Internet.

The M$M is highly over-rated, in my opinion. There is a new means of communication and those that fail to see it are doomed to lose.

Facebook has become especially popular, even since the last election. This is the future. Those that lag behind will be lost.

[arcane1]

1. So far, Sanders appears to be dominating that arena.

I've even seen conservative former classmates share his memes. True, they may not have known who he was, but the message is getting out!

[wyldwolf]

5. Really? How so?

[arcane1]

6. I see his quotes and memes shared more often, by people and organizations, than any other candidate.

Granted, that's just my experience, but it's the only experience I have

[wyldwolf]

7. odd. I see virtually none.

[arcane1]

8. You're missing some great stuff!

[wyldwolf]

10. what I do see is Hillary's folllows and buzz dwarfing that of Sanders

[arcane1]

11. I never see anything Clinton-related

With Facebook's algorithms, we're all seeing what we want to see to some extent

[wyldwolf]

13. yet their accounts plainly show numbers and buzz

For example:

[arcane1]

14. They do indeed!

[virtualobserver]

15. hillary up 2.8 % from last week, bernie up 10.5% from last week

a lot like the polls in Iowa and NH

Good info!

[wyldwolf]

16. which doesn't come close to "dominating" by Sanders.

[virtualobserver]

17. agreed....but facebook is just the tip of the iceberg

and the trend on Facebook is encouraging.

[wyldwolf]

18. well, what's below the tip?

Go to the candidate's pages, click on their social media pages, look at the numbers. There's your iceberg.

[virtualobserver]

19. the iceberg is growing. n/t

[wyldwolf]

20. But not as you're hoping

[virtualobserver]

21. I'm quite content

Bernie has all the time in the world.

[wyldwolf]

22. He actually doesn't

7 months is what he has. His campaign and followers are banking on Iowa and, to a lesser degree, New Hampshire. He HAS to win one of them because the rest of February and March look like disasters for him.

[kentuck]

23. Are you sure about that?

That the rest of February and March look like disasters?

[wyldwolf]

25. Yeah I'm sure.

Saturday, February 20: South Carolina (open primary)
Tuesday, February 23: Nevada caucus

March[edit]

Tuesday, March 1: Alabama (open primary); Arkansas (open primary); Colorado caucuses; Georgia (open primary); Massachusetts; Minnesota caucuses; North Carolina (open primary); Oklahoma; Tennessee (open primary); Texas (open primary); Vermont (open primary); Virginia (open primary);
Saturday, March 5: Louisiana
Tuesday, March 8: Mississippi (open primary); Michigan (open primary)
Tuesday, March 15: Florida; Illinois; Missouri (open primary); Ohio[45]
Tuesday, March 22: Arizona; Utah caucuses [46]
Saturday, March 26: Washington caucuses;Alaska caucuses[47] Hawaii caucus[48]

I don't see him racking up many delegates with that schedule.

[virtualobserver]

24. That is what everyone is banking on in every election

If Hillary had won Iowa, she would have been President

If Obama had won New Hampshire, Hillary would have been immediately on the ropes.

National polls shift radically based on IA and NH.

It is all about momentum.

[wyldwolf]

26. Different with a candidate like Sanders

A win for him in Iowa and/or NH won't do much to move voters with this schedule of mostly southern and western states:

Saturday, February 20: South Carolina (open primary)
Tuesday, February 23: Nevada caucus
March[edit]
Tuesday, March 1: Alabama (open primary); Arkansas (open primary); Colorado caucuses; Georgia (open primary); Massachusetts; Minnesota caucuses; North Carolina (open primary); Oklahoma; Tennessee (open primary); Texas (open primary); Vermont (open primary); Virginia (open primary);
Saturday, March 5: Louisiana
Tuesday, March 8: Mississippi (open primary); Michigan (open primary)
Tuesday, March 15: Florida; Illinois; Missouri (open primary); Ohio[45]
Tuesday, March 22: Arizona; Utah caucuses [46]
Saturday, March 26: Washington caucuses;Alaska caucuses[47] Hawaii caucus[48]

[virtualobserver]

27. that is true only in your imagination- unless you have that time machine working again

we will know after NH

[murielm99]

32. There are a lot of states that do not have

open primaries. Will Sanders be able to get on the ballot in those states? He is an independent, not a Democrat.

Why should we put an independent on our ballots, when we work so hard to get Democrats elected?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

28. I'd be willing to bet that Hillary had most of those numbers

since about, oh, 2008. She's probably picked up a few here and there since, but probably not at any great rate.

Bernie's probably exploded over the last few months.

[Katashi_itto]

29. I never see anything Hillary related either. Tons of Bernie though.

If fact I know that most of my acquaintances/Friends will not vote Hillary either. Either 3rd party or not at all.

[underthematrix]

30. HRC has almost 4 million tweeple following her and

Bernie has 115 thousand.

[HooptieWagon]

2. Only if social media = GOTV.

there still needs to be a registration and Election Day GOTV ground game and organization. But social media does replace a lot of m$m ad buys.

[Bellower]

3. Bernie has mastered the use of social media!

GO Bernie GO!

[underthematrix]

31. does that mean he can tweet and retweet?

[Babel_17]

4. I see it as social media being part of a melange ...

I see it as social media as part of a melange of ways to supplement traditional campaigning.
I think it will be the personal connection of Sanders supporters, who are connected electronically to the campaign, to non committed voters that will be crucial.

The Obama campaigns spread like wildfire over the social media, absolutely, and Sanders needs a lot of that. But the situation Sanders is in dictates a lot of face to face time from the candidate and his supporters. The early primaries are somewhat more crucial for Sanders than they were for Obama, imo. Though Sanders does have the opportunity for winning more kinds of victories than is traditionally expected.

The media lives in a bubble of predetermined outcome regarding Senator Sanders. Once decidedly burst, and their lack of prescience exposed, Sanders will have gained a lot of ground, just from that.

P.S. The thread title was evocative to me and so I had to work "melange" into my reply.

“He who controls the spice controls the universe.”

[underthematrix]

33. People tweeted and retweeted PBO because he is

attractive, charismatic, smart, has mega FLAVA and is a great communicator.

[olddots]

9. I hope you're right

I remember Ronny Raygun and watch Trump being a pop star .

[shireen]

12. Hillary left a comment at a Humans of New York post on Facebook

It's a touching photo and the responses are heartwarming. Hillary was one of the commenters. She did good.

Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/photos/a.102107073196735.4429.102099916530784/1010497585691008/?type=1&theater

Time article:

Street photographer Brandon Stanton — better known as the creator of Humans of New York — posted a picture Friday of a tearful boy with the caption, “I’m homosexual and I’m afraid about what my future will be and that people won’t like me.”

The post garnered 498,000 ‘Likes’, about standard for a HONY post, but what Stanton may not have expected was a comment from Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Clinton wrote, “Prediction from a grown-up: Your future is going to be amazing. You will surprise yourself with what you’re capable of and the incredible things you go on to do. Find the people who love and believe in you – there will be lots of them.”

More at
http://time.com/3945811/hillary-clinton-humans-of-new-york-gay/