I guess my point is that the suggestion that you can infer anything from the number of Trump “followers”, “re-tweeters”, “likers”, etc. as compared with those supporting Hillary, seems a bit of a stretch. To begin with, how many voters use Twitter/Facebook? Then, you would need to do all kinds of break-down of that data/run analytics before you could begin to effectively conclude anything about those numbers. And even, if you did, you’d still need to compare all that with things like voter enthusiasm of those who do not use these forums.
Just wondering about the whole polling process in general, and specifically these new formats, in particular.
Be careful of the questions you ask.
About voter enthusiasm that is tangible. Hillary who has crowds with regularity that are tiny even as small a 50, and never very large that Trump gets everyday of the week. I’ve never seen the utter disparity of crowd sizes between the two main party competing presidential candidates so stark.