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Positive Conversation About Sen. Ted Cruz Drops Sharply on Facebook After Net Neutrality Comments
ABC News ^ | November 16, 2014 | Benjamin Bell

Posted on 11/16/2014 5:18:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The percentage of conversation about Sen. Ted Cruz that was positive on Facebook fell after the Texas Republican criticized net neutrality, calling it “Obamacare for the Internet.”

Positive interactions related to Cruz on Facebook dropped from 52 percent over the period of Oct. 29 to Nov. 4 to 34 percent from Nov. 5 to Nov. 11, following the firebrand Texas senator’s reaction to Obama’s embrace of net neutrality, according to data supplied by Facebook.

The percentage of negative interactions for the first week examined was 44 percent, with 4 percent of the interactions being neutral. For the later time period, the percentage of negative interactions was 61 percent, with 5 percent of the interactions being neutral.

Facebook — which supplied the data about the interactions to ABC News as part of a partnership — defines interactions as “posts, comments, likes and shares” on the social network....

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Texas; Campaign News; Issues; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; facebkidiots; facebook; internet; netneutrality; obama; tedcruz; texas
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let me say it again so I can more than double the positive posts... Wonder if they would report on that, you know a surge of Positive post for Ted Cruz? Inquiring Minds would like to know.

I Stand With Ted Cruz! Keep the Government Out of the Internet. All they want is Control and this is one of the few FREEDOM areas Left!


41 posted on 11/16/2014 5:53:03 PM PST by jafojeffsurf (Return to the Constitution)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
(from the article):" Cruz on Facebook dropped from 52 percent over the period of Oct. 29 to Nov. 4 to 34 percent from Nov. 5 to Nov. 11,
following the firebrand Texas senator’s reaction to Obama’s embrace of net neutrality"

It doesn't matter !
FleeceBook is all about using personal identity, and submitting it to the "Collective"
FleeceBook's political motives are already known by those who are only vaguely aware.

42 posted on 11/16/2014 5:54:11 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: cripplecreek
your right.

the radical left and Val Jarret and Axelrod and George Steffy ,
are cordinsting this online counter attack !

They want to shut us up .

43 posted on 11/16/2014 5:56:51 PM PST by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: ncalburt

Yeah I’ve been taking a lot of scripted fire from lefties on twitter over Grubercare and NetGrubertrality.


44 posted on 11/16/2014 6:00:13 PM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wouldn’t put too much faith in anything the MSM reported.


45 posted on 11/16/2014 6:03:00 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Put lipstick on a Communist and call it a Progressive, but it's still a Communist with lipstick.)
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To: ncalburt
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46 posted on 11/16/2014 6:05:16 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: cripplecreek
Please notice how the good olde Clinton smear merchant George Steffy is pushing this pathetic hit piece n this link.

They want o control the internet now !

Everyone visiting Rat World in Orlando fund these lefties like Georgie !

The left has two years to shut down the internet !

Val Jar has all the troops mobilized on line .
Astroturfing 24-7

47 posted on 11/16/2014 6:06:23 PM PST by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: timestax

ABC .- All Barack Channel .


48 posted on 11/16/2014 6:12:24 PM PST by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Same old liberal propaganda vomiting media. Just another opportunity to “Palenize” Senator Cruz.

I’m sure the low information voters who eat this vomit believe ABC and Facebook are the trusted authoritative source for the subject of “net neutrality” and Senator Cruz’s popularity hangs in the balance.

Conservatives are going to have to put up with this Palenization of Cruz by the media until Hillary decides to run and tell us what “net neutrality” really means. Then it will be open season across the Internet and net neutrality will really become an issue.


49 posted on 11/16/2014 6:16:13 PM PST by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who writes Benjamin Bell’s stuff? Jonathan Gruber?


50 posted on 11/16/2014 6:34:35 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sounds like "Truthy" has sprung into action.
51 posted on 11/16/2014 6:36:14 PM PST by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: angry elephant

The only thing Zuckerberg did that was interesting was use his dorm room window as a grease board.

Beyond that he’s a first class tool.


52 posted on 11/16/2014 6:36:40 PM PST by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Frankly I think this article is a blatant lie. On the Facebook pages I hang out on anybody messing with the Internet is hated.


53 posted on 11/16/2014 8:19:06 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Cruz should AVOID this discussion, IMHO.

That tweets and facebook comments grow negative about Cruz, by the same airheads that loved 0’care, should be of little concern. The cutting edge of basement underwear comments don’t mean much.

But I think this, specifically, is a poisonous issue for Ted Cruz! He should just lay off.
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Democrats love people like you...they really do.


54 posted on 11/16/2014 8:23:31 PM PST by Artcore
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To: bigbob
...aspects of Net Neutrality that are very conservative in principle..

B.S! The Gruberizers behind this scam made it complex PRECISELY to muddle the waters, just like Gruber did with the UNaffordable Health Care Scam Act. Conservatives believe in letting the market work, not in fixing things that are not broken!The collectivists want to get their hands on the Internet because sites like this one, for example, reveal their lies. That want the power to shut such places down!

55 posted on 11/16/2014 8:29:25 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: Artcore

I have a really strong idea why you know what Democrats do and what they like. F-off.


56 posted on 11/16/2014 9:32:19 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Amen, Ted won the poll, thus the cankle biters ;-)


57 posted on 11/16/2014 9:39:22 PM PST by bigmak007 (They who can't control their own passions, want to passionately control others.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

“I have a really strong idea why you know what Democrats do and what they like. F-off.”
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And I have a really strong idea why RINOs love pu$$ies like you.


58 posted on 11/16/2014 10:33:18 PM PST by Artcore
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I tweeted the following link to Benjamin and challenged him to write a companion story. 'Course I don't expect him to do so.

Obamacare Facebook page comments mostly from small group of supporters

59 posted on 11/16/2014 10:42:44 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: 2001convSVT

When Soros and the FCC count the hits, yes


60 posted on 11/16/2014 10:51:49 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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