I was always looking for a methodology that takes into account voter enthusiasm in the age of social media. I say to myself how can 13 million Tweeter followers, 12 million Facebook page likes, massive rallies that never went away. Who is encapsulating them? You can't tell me they don't matter. Well, someone has.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/a...104022784.html
Data such as engagement with tweets or Facebook Live videos have been taken into account. The result is that Trump has overtaken the engagement numbers of Barack Obama 's peak in 2008 — the year he was elected president — by 25 percent.
Rai said that his AI system shows that the candidate in each election who had leading engagement data ended up winning the election.
"If Trump loses, it will defy the data trend for the first time in the last 12 years since Internet engagement began in full earnest," Rai wrote in a report sent to CNBC.
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