LAST 24 HOURS IN A NUTSHELL: Top House hashtags: #takeitback #waelex #countryoverparty Top Senate hashtags: #choosecruz #letsflymi #keeptexasred Interesting climbers: #mi03, #ny21: Two districts that we haven’t tracked up to this point. Cook’s Political Report has just shifted them from the “solid Republican” to the “likely Republican” category (which means we’ll put them on our Read more about Oct. 4 trends: Dirty ads and protest politics[…]
LAST 24 HOURS IN A NUTSHELL: Top House hashtags: #sundaymorning #amjoy #codt Top Senate hashtags: #keeptexasred #mtpol #choosecruz Interesting climbers: #makegeorgiablue (12th place House): A series of retweets on behalf of Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux in Georgia 07, who would be the first woman to represent the district. #kavanaugh (11th place House): While the bulk of these Read more about Oct. 1 trends: Weekend rallies and doorbell-ringing[…]
LAST 24 HOURS IN A NUTSHELL: Top House hashtags: #nhpolitics #climatechange #bluewave Top Senate hashtags: #keeptexasred #choosecruz #maga INTERESTING CLIMBERS #teammorse (16th place House): A strong showing for Democrat Jessica Morse in California 04, running against incumbent Tom McClintock. A key issue here: Morse is a strong backer of Christine Blasey Ford, whose allegations McClintock Read more about Sept. 30 trends: Fossil fools and magatalk[…]
Summary: The surge in #TXSen tweets around Friday’s Ted Cruz – Beto O’Rourke debate gives us an excellent chance to compare the features of active Twitter posters from both camps. We find that Cruz’s top 200 #KeepTexasRed posters continue to skew toward the midrange of “Problematic” (average: 62.83%) on the Bot Sentinel’s “trollbot” scale. By contrast, Read more about Cruz “trollbot” ratings remain high through O’Rourke-Cruz debate surge[…]
LAST 24 HOURS IN A NUTSHELL: Top House hashtags: #truth #bluewave #takeitback Top Senate hashtags: #keeptexasred #choosecruz #txlege Interesting climbers: #arpx (12th place House): A shorthand for “Arkansas politics.” Used here primarily by Democrat Clarke Tucker, whose GOP rival (and incumbent) French Hill declined to attend a televised candidate debate. #waelex (18th place House): Shorthand Read more about Sept 20 trends: Bigfoot’s #truth, GOP win in Texas[…]
Today comes a look at Ted Cruz’s Really Great Twitter Performance (TM) from a different angle, combining Pollchatter.org data with other projects’ research into bot and troll behavior. Yesterday we found clearly suspect behavior from at least one of Cruz’s strong supporters – in that case, the improbable posting of two simultaneous posts, with precisely identical to-the-second Read more about Ted Cruz’s (bot?) army, pt. 2[…]
For the last several days, we’ve been promising a look under the hood at Sen. Ted Cruz’s fairly astonishing Twitter performance, using the Pollchatter.org data. As previously noted, the numbers on his Tweets have been very consistently higher than any other district in the nation, usually by quite a substantial amount. Much of this is Read more about A data-driven look at Cruz’s (bot?) army[…]
LAST 24 HOURS IN A NUTSHELL: Top House hashtags: #30years #flipitblue #bluewave Top Senate hashtags: #choosecruz #istand #getthingsdone Interesting climbers: #cultureofcorruption (House: 18th place): While this is a general tag being adopted by Democrats to refer to the current GOP, today’s use comes predominantly from Kansas 03. Here, the main reference is to GOP Rep. Read more about Sept 14 trends: Strange votes and scare tactics[…]
LAST 24 HOURS IN A NUTSHELL: Top House hashtags: #nhpolitics #takeitback #vets4goj Top Senate hashtags: #choosecruz #istand #letsflymi Interesting climbers: #teamsharice (7th place): Supporters of Democrat Sharice Davids in Kansas 03. #goptaxscam (9th place): A catch-all for criticism of the GOP tax law. Today particularly active in Pennsylvania 01 and Virginia 10. #silentbrian (10th place): Read more about Sept. 13 trends: Veterans, veterans, veterans[…]
LAST 24 HOURS IN A NUTSHELL: Top House hashtags: #nhpolitics #takeitback #nhprimary Top Senate hashtags: #choosecruz #cruzcrew #letsflymi Interesting climbers: #30years: From Dem candidate Harley Rouda in CA48. This is how long it’s been since the district was represented by a Democrat. #MedicareForAll: Strong showing in the last several days, but predominately due to NH01 Read more about Sept. 12 trends: NH elections, churning Cruz[…]