Hillary Clinton’s winning big in the “Facebook poll” in New Hamsphire and South Carolina, but Bernie Sanders is right behind. And among Republicans, Rand Paul is on top.
Those are the results of Facebook “interactions,’’ which include likes, posts, comments and shares, over the past month. The data cover May 13 to June 13.
No one knows, of course, how much influence Facebook and social media will have, but at the moment, Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, is clearly the most talked-about candidate. Her 289,000 Iowa interactions are far ahead of runnerup Sanders, the senator from Vermont, who had 153,000. Paul, a senator from Kentucky, had 98,000.
Sanders came closer in New Hampshire, which shares a long border with Vermont. He had 123,000 interactions to Clinton’s 145,000. But he fell way back in South Carolina, where Clinton topped him, 460,000 to 116,000. Clinton held her first major rally Saturday, the last day the data was collected. Sanders held his first big presidential event May 26.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who has been trying to appeal to the Republicans’ evangelical base, did well in that state, finishing a close second to Paul.
Here are South Carolina data. The first number is unique people. The second is interactions:
Hillary Clinton 104,000 460,000
Rand Paul 34,000 132,000
Ben Carson 24,000 120,000
Bernie Sanders 24,000 116,000
Lindsey Graham 43,000 100,000
Ted Cruz 25,000 94,000
Jeb Bush 32,000 80,000
Mike Huckabee 29,000 80,000
Rick Perry 33,000 71,000
Marco Rubio 18,000 48,000
Scott Walker 14,000 39,000
Rick Santorum14,000 28,000
Carly Fiorina 10,000 25,000
Chris Christie 13,000 24,000
Donald Trump 12,000 20,000
Bobby Jindal 8,000 15,000
Martin O Malley 2,000 5,000
George Pataki 2,000 2,000
John Kasich 1,000 2,000
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