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USA Today: Sanders' announcement well behind Clinton's on Facebook
http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/05/01/bernie-sanders-announcement-facebook/The first votes won’t be cast until early 2016, but it appears Bernie Sanders won’t win the Facebook “announcement primary” against Hillary Clinton.
The Vermont independent senator officially announced Thursday that he would seek the Democratic presidential nomination. The news generated 1.2 million Facebook interactions (which includes likes, posts, comments and shares) from 592,000 people about Sanders during the 24-hour period around the campaign kickoff, according to Facebook.
Not surprisingly, those numbers pale in comparison to front-runner Hillary Clinton’s announcement earlier in April, which drove 10.1 million interactions from 4.7 million users.
Sanders didn’t lag that far behind one notable 2016 contender, however. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, considered a top-tier Republican presidential hopeful, generated 1.3 million interactions from 695,000 people when he announced on April 13, numbers that are just ahead of Sanders.
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The Vermont independent senator officially announced Thursday that he would seek the Democratic presidential nomination. The news generated 1.2 million Facebook interactions (which includes likes, posts, comments and shares) from 592,000 people about Sanders during the 24-hour period around the campaign kickoff, according to Facebook.
Not surprisingly, those numbers pale in comparison to front-runner Hillary Clinton’s announcement earlier in April, which drove 10.1 million interactions from 4.7 million users.
Sanders didn’t lag that far behind one notable 2016 contender, however. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, considered a top-tier Republican presidential hopeful, generated 1.3 million interactions from 695,000 people when he announced on April 13, numbers that are just ahead of Sanders.
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but he is doing surprising well across social media- and raising small dollar donations.
Shocker. Bernie is the underdog.
