Posted on 12/01/2018 7:17:12 PM PST by SamAdams76
This is a monthly posting of Twitter follower growth for the past month for 2020 presidential candidates.
For those who are new to this, what I do here is take a snapshot of Twitter followers at end of each month for citizens who have either formally announced or notable people who show interest in running for president in the 2020 cycle. Then I stack rank by what the growth is month-over-month in Twitter followers.
This is very unscientific of course but I feel that Twitter growth in followers is a very strong indicator of candidate "velocity" and we certainly saw that in 2016, when it was Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and the eventual winner Donald Trump who month after month saw the highest growth in followers. My 2016 tracking showed "front-runners" like Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio with rather tepid Twitter follower growth months before they eventually dropped out of the race.
So I think this "unscientific" survey has some merit.
I am currently tracking 47 individuals for the 2020 Presidential Race but only the Top 20 make the cut for my monthly update.
I dropped a few from last month including Hillary Clinton, Al Sharpton, Jeff Flake and Mark Cuban as none of them have stated directly they are interested and as for PantSuit, I have my doubts she'll even be in good enough shape medically to run.
I added a few to the tracking this month including Bob Corker, Sherrod Brown, Kirsten Gillibrand and Jill Stein.
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I like how you dropped Sherrod Brown and kept Vermin Supreme. That seems right.
Objective data are rare these days....
As for Vermin Supreme, he's a wackjob with zero chance but he is an officially announced candidate so I shall track him.
Even though he's "stuck" at 84 followers.
I LOVE this project.
Harris and Biden concern me.
Harris because she is “different” and Americans love shiny new toys.
Biden, because he is a brutal politician who will lie, cheat and steal to win and for some reason is not hated by the masses nearly as much as he should be.
HOW COULD YOU NOT VOTE FOR TRUMP WHOEVER YOU ARE.
EVERYTHING IS BETTER!!!
This is quite interesting.
Do you have a ping list? I would like to be added please, if you do.
Thank you. Good post.
I just read yesterday I think Jeff Flake is considering.
Beto reminds me of Justin Trudeau up in Canada. He might be empty-headed and a bit of a goof, but the libs are going to love him nonetheless.
His follower growth was -18,208 this month, down to 654,610 from 672,818.
You are on the ping list now. Thanks.
WOW geat data....
please add me to a ping list as it's the first time I have seen your Twitter data.
Do you have an archive of the primaries for 2016 and the final race to the elections..?
Twitter growth in followers is a very strong indicator of candidate "velocity" ...Good but replace velocity with Momentum.
The utility of data is in the eye of the beholder....Spokeshave.
You can add me to that ping list, too.
Good post.
You are now on the ping list and thanks for the suggestion on replacing "velocity" with "momentum." That will be done.
Who the hell is Vermin Supreme?
Ponies for everyone!!!
Please add to your ping list
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