New data from Governing and the National Research Center suggest that democracy is hard to do. Only 19% of respondents to the nationwide survey say they have contact local officials in the past year. Only 24% say they've attended a…
Posts tagged as “social media”
GOP Blog Contends Bosworth Buys Facebook Followers
Annette Bosworth's Facebook fakery is so bad, even Bosworth chum Pat Powers can't take it any more. A month after I noted the strange preponderance of Egyptian Likers swelling her online standing, Powers notes a surge in likes that points…
Corinna Robinson on Twitter, But Not Public Yet: Open Up, Major!
Potential Democratic candidate Corinna Robinson is on Twitter. Given this account follows just 9 people and has just 18 followers, it's quite possible this is a new account created on the heels of her announcement that she may challenge Rep.…
Annette Bosworth, the Egyptian Candidate
Patrick Davis, former South Dakota Republican Party exec, has gone off his nut, begging his e-mail list to send money to Annette Bosworth, the least knowledgeable, least credible, least viable Senate candidate in South Dakota. Also off their nut: Egyptians.…
Rounds Resistance to Social Media Has Harmful Policy Implications
Marion Michael Rounds's resistance to using social media reveals his haughty unwillingness to meet voters where they are. That's one good reason to vote for Rick Weiland or Stace Nelson instead of Rounds for U.S. Senate. Rounds's cluelessness about social…
Rounds Still Tech Dinosaur, Too Busy to Engage Voters Online
When he was Governor, Marion Michael Rounds didn't care much for e-mail and couldn't tell the difference between a PDF and a searchable database. Five years later, U.S. Senate candidate Rounds remains a technological dinosaur: Others, including Mike Rounds and…
Rounds Leads on Facebook Likes; Bosworth Tops Daily Rate; Nelson Wins Fair Week
With only nine months to go until the June primary, let's see how South Dakota's declared candidates for U.S. Senate stack up on a metric that means something to the average person on the street: How many people like them…
RT: Twitter Predicts Elections!
The Washington Post reports that mentions on Twitter can predict election outcomes: That’s the takeaway at the core of a newly-released study conducted by four researchers at Indiana University. The paper stands in stark contrast to other research assessing the…