Guess they don't read articles by Gabby Moron-jello.
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.
Which? Be specific.
Guess they don't read articles by Gabby Moron-jello.
Isn’t it unbelievable to you the lengths they are going to?
Have you ever seen anything like this?
You fight hardest against what you fear most.
Regardless of one’s leanings, to watch an incoming tide and say “there’s no tide” is just plain silly.
Might or might not amount to much down the road but it is a real phenomenon. Ignore it your peril.
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Appealing to feelings is how Ostupid won. If Trump is doing that he will win.
I was kiddin’ with ya. The serious side of things, is always out of Our reach, anyhow.
OK, this is the last time I’m going to read ANY Trump articles linked by you. Not Walker either.
Using Jesse Ventura links to prove positive that Trump is a gadfly is beyond ridiculous. It only shows your ridiculous bias and blindness.
The GOP just left a message for you. The want to know how the “Trash Trump” operation is going.
Bull***t
That’s nice - it still gives us some hope if enough young people are paying attention - they will become eligible to vote for their futures...
the headline has a fallacious implication
it should read presently unable to vote
Growth of Twitter followers are a good measure of enthusiasm for a given campaign. I don't focus as much on the total number of followers but how many have signed up in a recent period.
Once August is done, I'll reset everything and start fresh on September 1.
And what will have been won?
Who is he?
Do his supporters know?
Do they care?
In case you didn’t know it, Jindal placed Common Core into Louisiana public schools, and refused to have it removed; he is leaving the state in complete economic SHAMBLES (he has been running for president since the next day he won the governorship almost eight years ago). You talk about someone who “says what you want to hear”!!!!
What will have been won is this. If Trump continues to call out the disgrace which woven throughout the DC elites and continues to call out the equally disgraceful media for their lack of objectivity and complete abbrogation of their duties as watch dog of and for the citizenry, we will have taken steps to win back the country.
Trump is not my choice for nominee, I actually like Cruz and believe him to brilliant and a truly gifted communicator not to mention a true Conservitive. However unlike many here I will support whomever is the nominee because the very worst candidate we have is light yrs better for America than any Democrat.
Trump is valuable to us because he can and does say the things which need to be said and by doing so allows the others to also discuss them. One of the important things he has done is make public his disdain for the cancer which is eating us alive, the PC movement.
Trump is tough and unafraid anf after 7 yrs of the worst, weakest and untruthful president we have ever had, America is hungry for this type of a man.
Experts say there’s no question Jindal reversed his position on Common Core.http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jun/08/bobby-jindal/bobby-jindal-change-position-common-core/
"Gov. Jindal has clearly flip-flopped on the issue. He went from singing the praises of Common Core to leading the charge for removing the standards in Louisiana. Because of Jindal, the state has made almost a complete U-turn on the standards," said James Shuls, a professor of education and policy at the University of Missouri in St. Louis.
Yes, this is a pathetic post and article.
You’re not doing Scott Walker any favors.
He went from singing the praises of Common Core to leading the charge for removing the standards in Louisiana.”
Experts??? If you require experts to analyze a candidate, then something is desperately out of order.
Not so anyway. Two legislative sessions ago, when he still had his power, and some legislators were trying to get it removed, because there was a statewide hue and cry to have it removed, Jindal did not send ANYONE to the legislature, did not offer ANY amendments, did not raise his little finger to try to have it removed. He was out-of-state, campaigning for the presidency. He has NEVER led the charge.
I don’t use social media.
I am older than the ARPANET.
I have been watching all the newsposts that are fitting to spend the seconds for, and i am a Trump supporter.
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