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Obama’s Midwest tour last week prompted more criticism and ridicule than support on Twitter, according to this week’s Hill Hexagon.
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An analysis of Twitter traffic by Crimson Hexagon over the days of the tour showed that 72 percent of the opinions expressed were negative, while 22 percent were neutral and only 6 percent were favorable.
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Crimson Hexagon reviewed 47,645 mentions of the bus tour on Twitter, of which 38,185 expressed an opinion.
This is more powerful than any poll done by the media. Why? First, the amount of opinions taken into account is usually larger than 1,000 people polled over the phone. Second, the opinions are unsolicited. There are no leading questions. Heck, there are NO questions. So those that “tweet” are free to speak what’s on their mind.
What does this mean? People who are plugged in to what’s going on are not liking the bus tour. Extrapolate this to the election and it spells trouble. Obama will need many who do not pay attention to the issues or who are bought to vote for him in 2012.
Obama’s Midwest tour last week prompted more criticism and ridicule than support on Twitter, according to this week’s Hill Hexagon.
…
An analysis of Twitter traffic by Crimson Hexagon over the days of the tour showed that 72 percent of the opinions expressed were negative, while 22 percent were neutral and only 6 percent were favorable.
…
Crimson Hexagon reviewed 47,645 mentions of the bus tour on Twitter, of which 38,185 expressed an opinion.
This is more powerful than any poll done by the media. Why? First, the amount of opinions taken into account is usually larger than 1,000 people polled over the phone. Second, the opinions are unsolicited. There are no leading questions. Heck, there are NO questions. So those that “tweet” are free to speak what’s on their mind.
What does this mean? People who are plugged in to what’s going on are not liking the bus tour. Extrapolate this to the election and it spells trouble. Obama will need many who do not pay attention to the issues or who are bought to vote for him in 2012.
Goes to show there are a lot of righties that Twit a lot
Casper
Is anyone able to simply use their own individual power of observation and come to their own conclusions - or is it simply right vs. left for you?
Well if they were lefties as you imply then why the low numbers, hmmmmm. The world is left and rght with most of us stuck in the middle, but if one dares point out the obvious then someone will label you
Casper
Well if they were lefties as you imply then why the low numbers, hmmmmm. The world is left and rght with most of us stuck in the middle, but if one dares point out the obvious then someone will label you
Casper
I think there was a lot of negative publicity to the purchase of the buses to begin with. Not everyone took the time to read that these buses were commissioned by the secret servive instead of renting and retrofitting buses as has been done in the past. I do think it was a smart investment though ill timed.
No sense in crying after the milk has been spilt...
I wonder if there will be negativity when the repug candidate
uses the same bus for campaign purposes.
Nope. My guess is that the Republican will have another one built in Canada at twice the cost.
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