That should appeal to a lot of Libs:
Posted on 08/14/2015 11:46:18 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump may be dominating social media, but a new study has revealed that a vast percentage of his online following is legally incapable of voting.
According to data collected by the social analytics company, Macromeasures, just 39.4 percent of the real estate mogul's Twitter followers are members of the voting-eligible population, as first reported by Forbes.
The company analyzed a handful of GOP hopefuls, including Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Scott Walker and Carly Fiorina. Among those Republican candidates, Trump carried the largest percentage of disenfranchised followers. In comparison, 95.7 percent of Fiorina's Twitter followers could legally cast a ballot if the election were held tomorrow.
According to Forbes, Macromeasures used certain criteria to filter out followers located outside the U.S. and/or under the age of 18 when gathering its data. A spokesperson told Forbes that the company used spot checks to ensure that individuals who were filtered out were indeed unlikely to be American and thus, unable to vote.
"The analysis also found that Trump's following is weak among women, young conservatives and people with strong Christian values," Forbes reported.
Just 28.4 percent of the bombastic billionaire's followers are women and 11.5 percent are users with strong Christian values. Meanwhile, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a top evangelical candidate, leads the pack with just over 37 percent of his followers having communicated Christian values on Twitter while Florida Sen. Marco Rubio carries the most female followers, 43.7 percent, and college students, 14.4 percent.
Trump also lags behind in the number of followers he's attracted who hail from early primary states. According to the study, only 0.9 percent of the New York businessman's followers are located in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Despite trailing behind some GOP candidates with his following across certain demographics, Trump maintains the greatest online reach of any Republican candidate with 3.72 million Twitter followers — due in no small part to his celebrity status.
According to his Twitter profile, Trump joined the popular social networking site in 2009 — the same year NBC relaunched the format of his television series, "The Apprentice," to include celebrity contestants. The business tycoon began building up his online following as a public figure long before entering the 2016 presidential race and presumably attracting more political folk.
Nevertheless, the 16 other Republican candidates still stagger behind Trump in terms of their online reach. The business tycoon has more than four times as many followers as Rubio, the GOP candidate with the second largest following on Twitter, and is less than half a million followers shy of tying with Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
The overwhelming majority of people who vote for Democrats are also ineligible to vote. The whole election thing is a joke.
what a ridiculous premise
just watch
How pathetic of you to post such a silly article.
Now this — Game Change: Trump Consults with Sen Jeff Sessions on Immigration Strategy — is a really informative article. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3324908/posts
I suggest you read it.
This is a very suspect and bias report. If anyone can reliably say who Twitter users are, I’d be very surprised.
That means he’s got the Democrat vote locked up.
This is something people are discounting.
People now polling for Trump, might not be expected to vote.
As we move forward polls will start to take likelyhood to vote into account and changes will happen.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/251196-trump-mocks-paul-fiorina-and-bush-at-rally
Thank you for the link.
Here’s one for you.
Yawn...
I also heard the Donald stole a kids lunch money in the fourth grade! Oh the humanity!
Suggested reading for you.
That should appeal to a lot of Libs:
LOL! :-D
So what?
He is polling ahead of his nearest rival 2:1 amongst people who are eligible to vote.
But if you scroll down and dig into those poll numbers, you might notice that over 60% of the respondents still remain undecided.
keyboard spew alert
On 8-9-15 Scott Walker had 185,000 followers (12th place in the debate field).
Trump still has almost twice what Walker has
Nice try though.
"....Supporters of the Jesse Ventura faction began encouraging Donald Trump to enter the race, likely as a placeholder for Ventura, who said he would not consider a presidential bid until after his term as governor ended. On October 25, 1999 Trump joined the Reform Party." - Source
Jesse Ventura: Do you think Trump would consider me for VP?
Jesse 'The Body' Ventura OK with Bernie Sanders tag team ticket
” Voting-eligible population “... WHAT A CONCEPT...
Aliens have been voting for a long time.. in certain places..
Depends on the place.. some places don’t even check or if they do it is cursory..
Democrats DENY (in some places) I.D.’s to vote..
Means anybody can be anybody.. or NOBODY...
The dead vote in many places especially Chicago...
People laugh... even republicans laugh... IT’S NOT FUNNY..
Odds are 99.9% of voter fraud are democrats..
And republicans give it the Curly Salute.. nothing else..
Nice way to discourage it.. an idiot knows it encourages it..
There you have it.. VOTER FRAUD is encouraged by REPUBLICANS..
Kind of makes you go.. Hmmmmm.. don’t it..
What’s up wid dat...
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