Paul Ryan posts online Q&A, gets 200 views and one question. Campaign declares it a great success.
Source: Daily kos
So earlier today, Paul Ryan decides to give the online Q&A thing a shot and LOL:
Late Monday morning, he posted a thread on question-and-answer site Quora that, at least at first, largely flew under Internet users respective radars. [...] Ryans Quora thread failed to immediately gain the traction and popularity of Obamas recent Reddit appearance, which saw 865,092 unique visitors in the first hour, up from 518,312 on Reddit prior to Obamas interview. Nearly an hour after Ryans Quora thread was posted, it was seen by less than 200 people and had only one comment a users fact-check on Ryans arguments that has since been downvoted.
Let's say that Obama's Reddit audience was just 347,000 in the first hour. That's a conservative estimate that assumes only Reddit's incremental traffic viewed the Obama thread, but it's still nearly two thousand times larger than Ryan's audience. And that was just in the first hour!
Obviously, part of the problem here is that Ryanland decided to use Quora when they could have used Reddit. But the reason why they didn't use Reddit is obvious: They don't actually want to answer questions, because most of the questions they get are about their campaign lies. In fact, the only question Ryan got in his first hour was about exactly that. And since then, more comments have been posted to the thread but almost all the ones that were either critical of Ryan or asked him to document his claims were hidden. And Romneyland won't be responding to them either:
A source close to the Romney-Ryan campaign told Mashable that it was unclear if Ryan would be responding to comments left on his Quora thread, but the source added that the campaign is hoping to continue to expand their usage of Quora over time.
So ... Romneyland puts Paul Ryan up for an online Q&A that almost nobody sees, and decides that they probably won't answer the one question that he got because they didn't like it, nor will they necessarily answer any questions in the future because not enough people were ready to buy their bogus political arguments.
But they claim that they are planning to continue doing even more of these sorts of events. Brilliant, eh? And yet they wonder why nobody who is paying any attention takes them seriously.
Read more: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/10/1129967/-Paul-Ryan-posts-online-Q-A-gets-200-views-and-one-question-Campaign-declares-it-a-great-success
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Atypical Liberal
(5,412 posts)Old people follow Romney, and are not nearly as computer literate as younger people who follow Obama.
djean111
(14,255 posts)with computers, and loathe Romney and will vote for Obama. I am on SS, too.
You need to fix your generalization emitter.
Makes a person want to go elsewhere, being stuffed in a generalization like that, ya know.
That age thing is becoming fairly useless, methinks.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)savalez
(3,517 posts)so stick around!
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...that use computers and support our President.
I've been a graphic artist for 30 years, which meant that I was actually one of the 'pioneers' that took you youngins into the 21st century so you didn't have to burn your fingers on a waxer or stab yourself on an Exacto knife.
Iris
(15,652 posts)louis-t
(23,292 posts)Even if the ideology doesn't work, scream louder and keep doing it.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)"Romney economics: Feed our seed corn to the fattest pigs and trust them to poop out jobs."
A bunch of people commented on the dailykos article about Ryan's Q&A attempt, and someone who goes by the screen name 'blue aardvark' wrote that response to a repuke defending R&R. I love it!!!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)bongbong
(5,436 posts)Lyin' Ryan.
randome
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(26,619 posts)I have an 85 year old aunt who supported and voted for Obama and she lives in Texas..
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)And he continues to creep me out.
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