Posted on 08/14/2015 11:46:18 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump may be dominating social media, but a new study has revealed that a vast percentage of his online following is legally incapable of voting.
According to data collected by the social analytics company, Macromeasures, just 39.4 percent of the real estate mogul's Twitter followers are members of the voting-eligible population, as first reported by Forbes.
The company analyzed a handful of GOP hopefuls, including Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Scott Walker and Carly Fiorina. Among those Republican candidates, Trump carried the largest percentage of disenfranchised followers. In comparison, 95.7 percent of Fiorina's Twitter followers could legally cast a ballot if the election were held tomorrow.
According to Forbes, Macromeasures used certain criteria to filter out followers located outside the U.S. and/or under the age of 18 when gathering its data. A spokesperson told Forbes that the company used spot checks to ensure that individuals who were filtered out were indeed unlikely to be American and thus, unable to vote.
"The analysis also found that Trump's following is weak among women, young conservatives and people with strong Christian values," Forbes reported.
Just 28.4 percent of the bombastic billionaire's followers are women and 11.5 percent are users with strong Christian values. Meanwhile, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a top evangelical candidate, leads the pack with just over 37 percent of his followers having communicated Christian values on Twitter while Florida Sen. Marco Rubio carries the most female followers, 43.7 percent, and college students, 14.4 percent.
Trump also lags behind in the number of followers he's attracted who hail from early primary states. According to the study, only 0.9 percent of the New York businessman's followers are located in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Despite trailing behind some GOP candidates with his following across certain demographics, Trump maintains the greatest online reach of any Republican candidate with 3.72 million Twitter followers — due in no small part to his celebrity status.
According to his Twitter profile, Trump joined the popular social networking site in 2009 — the same year NBC relaunched the format of his television series, "The Apprentice," to include celebrity contestants. The business tycoon began building up his online following as a public figure long before entering the 2016 presidential race and presumably attracting more political folk.
Nevertheless, the 16 other Republican candidates still stagger behind Trump in terms of their online reach. The business tycoon has more than four times as many followers as Rubio, the GOP candidate with the second largest following on Twitter, and is less than half a million followers shy of tying with Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
Is this the best the leftie /libs
could come up with?
Doncha know?. That few cents of stolen lunch money developed into the foundation for his expansive evil empire.
I have a standard poodle, Cousin of the celebrated Cooper from “Duck Dynasty”, This scene is more real than you know.
LOL. Keep trying though.
“Marco Rubio carries the most female followers” - LOL. I wonder why?
Trump is going to do YUGE among independents and draw a lot of middle America Democrats too. I got a taste of that listening to the callers after his speech on CSPAN today. One elderly lady said she and her husband were both Dems and are totally for Trump. Another millennial, voted fot Obama twice, said “I’m done with that party, I can’t wait to vote for Trump.” They had caller after caller, all for Trump because he says what he means and loves America.
Because he appeals to feelings (his policy positions are never spelled out or a moving target).
His policy positions are far more defined than Walker’s, IMHO. He appeals to Democrats for the same reasons Reagan did. He loves America and wants to make it great again. In the future they may call them Trump Democrats.
What has been mistaken for a Trump Tsunami is in reality the full moon reflecting off a weather balloon carried across the nation by a front of swamp gas. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
what a ridiculous premise
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Nothing else works to discount the numbers, so they try this angle. First time I ever saw the MSM concerned about “ineligible’ voters.
For some reason an article by someone named,
Gabby Morrongiello
pronounced Gabby Moron Jello,
is rather hard to take seriously.
Or perhaps, it’s her/his twitter handle or a cynical dig at the audience.
Conservative columnist: Trump once backed single-payer health care
"....Ever the pragmatist, Trump noted change would not happen overnight.
"While we work out details of a new single-payer plan, there are a number of ways to make the health care system now in place work more efficiently," Trump wrote.
So, it’s fair to say that in 2000, Trump supported a Canadian-style health care plan.
By 2011, his views had changed. As he contemplated a presidential bid, he told the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., that "I will fight to end Obamacare and replace it with something that makes sense for people in business and not bankrupt the country."
In an interview with the New York Times, Trump backed away from a single-payer plan, as well as another of his proposals from a decade earlier, a surtax on the wealthiest Americans...."
Obamacare: Pull It out by the Roots and Replace It with a Plan That Works [Scott Walker]
Walker: "Let’s be honest. Obamacare was nothing more than a bait and switch. But Americans never took the bait.
In 2010, as President Obama and his fellow Democrats were trying desperately to ram Obamacare down our throats, they made one false claim after another. They told us health-care premiums would go down. They insisted if you liked your health-care plan you could keep it. They guaranteed Obamacare wouldn’t include any tax increases for the middle class. Americans didn’t buy these lofty promises then, and they certainly don’t now, given that each and every one of them has been broken.
Five years after Democrats forced Obamacare on the nation, Americans still don’t support it. We don’t like the president’s health-care plan, and we don’t want to keep it. Therefore, we must pull this dysfunctional and destructive law out by the roots.
We must repeal Obamacare in its entirety as soon as possible. But we can’t stop there. The president’s policies must be replaced with a plan that will send power back to the people and the states, fix the decades-old problems of rising medical-care and health-insurance costs, and support economic growth instead of punishing workers and small businesses. We must do all of this while ensuring affordable coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, and removing the fear that something as simple as changing jobs could result in loss of coverage.
Next week, I will release a plan to replace Obamacare that accomplishes all of these goals, and addresses the following problems with the law: ........................."
Washington Examiner is pounding Trump every chance they get. I follow them on twitter and their hit jobs are nonstop.
I have a friend who is Democrat and just moved from Michigan to Florida. He is switching to Republican to vote for Trump.
Ha...watch yesterdays NH rally for Trump...and see the audience......
Debunked by our own Sam Adams76 who showed that his following grew by 300,000 in the last three weeks alone, or more than Walker has altogether. In fact, even if you accept the premise of the article Trump, at 40% of his numbers, still has 10 TIMES Walker’s, and virtually all the million or so added since June are interested “political” voters.
People get all excited about his 3 million followers but the simple fact is that he had nearly that many long before the election based on celebrity alone.
WTF are they going to come up with next???
That toadstool spores in the air are somehow going to prevent Trump supporters from pulling the right lever in the voting booth?
These dunderheads are so mindlessly devoted to anti-Trump drumbeat propaganda that there is absolutely no limit to the tsunami of nonsense that spills out of their patoots.
How do you count that?>
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