Augen on 29 July 2016
| Arkaign said: What IS kind of interesting to me is that I have several thousand FB people, and I know of TWO Hillary fans. TWO. Those are the only human beings in the midst (and yes, they are real people) who are on her side. There are many many more who will vote for her because they dislike Trump, but it still boggles my mind how she won the primary. A huge % of my friends are Hispanic or Asian, so maybe that skews things a bit, but the sample size honestly should be big enough to show something. That works out to around 0.5% HRC support out of my contacts list. I'd say Trump is around 5%. Bernie probably had about 20% of my friends list, and now I'm seeing at least as many Gary Johnson supporters as I do Trump supporters. In real life I've actually YET to meet a single HRC supporter. |
Anecdotes and data are often challening to seperate.
If I went by Facebook during the primaries Rand Paul should be facing Bernie Sanders right now.
If I went right now it looks like Gary Johnson will beat Jill Stein.
Of course the reality is Johnson or Stein will be lucky to crack 10% (which would be impressive) so Clinton or Trump will win the presidency despite the perception social media presents.
I should add majority of Facebook friends, myself included, don't use the platform as means to discuss politics. The old "silent majority" you hear about that still show up on election days and vote.
