ABC News: How Bernie Sanders Got the Biggest Twitter Bump From the GOP Debate
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-biggest-twitter-bump-gop-debate/story?id=35802263
By MERIDITH MCGRAW Dec 16, 2015, 2:22 PM ET
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wasn’t in Las Vegas for the Republican debate Tuesday night. He wasn’t even mentioned once by any of the candidates on stage. But, by the end of the night, the U.S senator from Vermont managed to pick up the most Twitter followers of any of the 2016 presidential candidates.
How did he manage to do it?
It turns out that Sanders, who has a little over 1 million followers on Twitter -- almost double the population of the state of Vermont -- live tweeted the event using the hashtag #GOPDebate and gained 5,258 followers over course of CNN’s GOP debate night coverage.
Twitter’s Government and Elections team keeps tabs on tweets, retweets, and followers during the debate and offered up the final numbers on their account, @gov.
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Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks about combating ISIS and democratic socialism at Georgetown University Nov. 19, 2015 in Washington.
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No matter what free thinking people say to point any of the issues out, the M$M, and the Party establishment will claim that no one could have known what the result would be.
...and it fits so well. I'm seeing it firsthand. But not having the media on your side is not a deal breaker. It's kind of surprising. I like your Fred Astaire quote. That's very fitting.
I've often thought that this is similar to the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. On caucus night, I picture the establishment elites being like the Grinch--completely not understanding how the Whoos down in Whoovile won, and are singing! Instead of the Grinch saying, "It came without ribbons, boxes and bags" the old-guard establishment will say, "It came without media coverage, Pac money and endorsements."
hehe.
It won't end with us inviting them to dinner to help carve the roast beast. They can suck it! 
One of the reasons I believe both of these candidates are being ignored is that both are against the TPP. Hillary Clinton has given several speeches supporting it, although she now says she cannot say if she will support it until she has a chance to read the finalized version. 
President Obama himself did not want the content of this so-called trade agreement -- there is something like 26 chapters only three of which cover trade -- made public until absolutely necessary because he knew many Americans would be outraged at the content.
Corporation lobbyists wrote much of this document. Among those are companies such as Comcast, and it, for example, absolutely doesn't want even simple constructive criticism on the proposed legislation aired. Many people believe this is why Ed Schultz was dismissed from MSNBC -- because he constantly covered extremely controversial (and that is an understatement) aspects of this legislation on air, and he even had political opponents such as Bernie Sanders often contributing anti-TPP commentary.
Martin O'Malley has publicly said opposing the TPP is just common sense. So I believe this is one of the reasons we see the debates aired at extremely usually odd times, times when obviously not too many Americans will be watching, and opponents of the TPP will be muzzled (again an understatement).
Free speech is one of the liberties of which most Americans are very protective. To protect major legislation from critical scrutiny and public comment before it is essentially finalized in form and close to an up or down vote by Congress is not what this Country is about.
Perhaps this topic is one Iowans should discuss along with the candidates when they caucus. It certainly would be in their best interests (IMHO).
Sam
Lay claim? 
Quoting a song is laying claim? Comparing policy stances is laying claim? Stating someone's political record and past actions is laying claim? Lighten up.
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