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By Anthony ManOctober 31, 2011 06:18 PM One of the biggest single events of the 2012 presidential campaign will take place in Boca Raton – just 15 days before Election Day. The last of three presidential debates is set for Lynn University, the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, announced Monday. “We’re fired up. We’re so […]...
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By Nick Judd | techPresident More than in any other race to date, Americans may experience the 2012 presidential election through precisely targeted phone calls, visits, tweets and Facebook posts — messages not from the candidates themselves, but from their own politically active friends. If those messages come, they won’t be random. As campaigns become […]...
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By JENNIFER MARTINEZ | Politico Google-owned YouTube is launching a special site Thursday that it hopes will be a one-stop online spot for political junkies to watch the good, the bad and the ugly of the 2012 presidential campaign. The site, YouTube Politics, will include videos from the candidates’ official YouTube channels and a mix […]...
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By DAVID CHARNS, KRISTEN BARBARESI and KELLY F. ZIMMERMAN, Breitbart WASHINGTON – Republicans have a 48-seat majority in the House. But on Twitter, they have a much bigger edge. Since 2007, Republicans have sent twice as many tweets as Democrats. A Republican, Sen. John McCain of Arizona (SenJohnMcCain) is the most followed senator on Twitter. […]...
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From Ragan’s PR Daily Since 2005, the number of people in all age groups using social media has grown at an eye-popping rate. This infographic (after the jump) from Search Engine Journal breaks it down. Click on the title above....
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By Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation When a liberal debates a conservative on ideas, the liberal usually says the same thing. We can do better. Meaning of course, put the liberal in charge and things will be better. The sun will rise in the east, crops will grow, birds will sing and the […]...
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By David Catanese, Politico Tea party candidates tweet more frequently than Democrats and even their generic Republican rivals. That’s the finding of a study out of the University of Michigan, which surveyed 460,000 tweets over a three-year period from 687 candidates running for U.S. House, Senate and governor. Over the study period, tea party candidates […]...
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By NICOLE GAUDIANO | Federal Times When Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont delivers a major speech, he offers his audience a menu of cyber options to learn more and aid the cause. The independent lawmaker’s 47,000-plus Twitter followers can retweet a play-by-play from his staff, links to the speech and television interviews. More than 70,000 […]...
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By Nick Judd, TechPresident One of the latest additions to Quora, the social question-and-answer platform? Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), chair of the House Budget Committee. Ryan joined Quora yesterday and answered two questions, one about the Greek debt crisis and another about his Medicare budget. “Is Paul Ryan’s budget really ending Medicare as we know […]...
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by Russ Jones, OneNewsNow.com A conservative non-profit group announced last week that it will host the Twitter Republican Presidential Debate on July 20 — the first presidential debate conducted through one of the web’s largest social media sites. Political analyst and pollster Dick Morris will moderate TheTeaParty.net event that will feature many GOP candidates. Dustin […]...
