Barack Obama’s social media power greater than all GOP candidates combined
Mitt Romney, the winner of the Iowa Caucus by 8 votes, and his fellow Republicans can bask in the attention they’re getting during the journey to nominate the individual who will take on Democratic incumbent, Barack Obama, in November’s election.
But there’s one race no single GOP candidate comes even close to being able to best Obama, the race for social media supremacy.
New research from Overdrive Interactive indicates how bad Republicans are losing the battle for social media dominance to President Obama, and the numbers are shocking.
The infographic compares the social media prowess of the President and the top GOP candidates (Michelle Bachmann no longer one of them), based on the number of Facebook likes and Twitter followers as the day of the Iowa Caucus.
It’s startling how much of a lead Obama has over not only the GOP social media leader, Newt Gingrich, but also the entire GOP field as a whole:
Facebook:
- Barack Obama – 36,072,492 likes
- GOP as a whole – 4,919,449 likes (13% of Obama’s total)
- GOP Facebook leader Newt Gingrich – 1,611,128 likes (4% of Obama’s total)
Twitter:
- Barack Obama – 11,731,247 followers
- GOP as a whole – 1,869,607 followers (15% of Obama’s total)
- GOP Twitter leader Newt Gingrich – 1,386,087 (12 % of Obama’s total and 74% of fellow GOP Presidential candidate’s total)
Do you think that social media power is one, not sole, predictor of who will win the upcoming Presidential election? Who do you feel will ultimately triumph in November and be our next President? Let us know in the comments below!
Author : Jeff Cormier – http://about.me/jffcrmr
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