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Often the people who friend or like others on Facebook aren't friends at all. According to the Washington Post, Mitt Romney lost nearly 593 Facebook friends between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on Friday morning. The losses are happening so quickly, the drop in numbers can actually be watched. 
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As Americans’ modes of communication change, the techniques that produce the most accurate polls seem to be changing as well.
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From the Big Bird memes to the animated GIFs of the candidates to the non-stop Invisible Obama jokes, the 2012 Election as a whole has been one of the most shared and commented-on events in social media history.
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Decision 2012 was indeed historic. But mark this down as perhaps the last “social media” election. In four years, we won’t turn to social media to see what people have to say on Twitter, or Instagram, or Facebook. We’ll just simply turn to social media
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Many of the memorable moments of this election cycle were mocked, altered and spread through online memes.
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Missed last night's final debate? Here it is retold through those silly little GIFs. Enjoy. And...don't forget to vote on November 6!
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In the thousands of words spoken in Tuesday's presidential debate, it was four awkwardly phrased ones that set the Internet afire: "Binders full of women."
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Mitt Romney triggered a wave of Trapper Keeper nostalgia at Tuesday night's presidential debate when he made a comment about "binders full of women" in reference to women entering the workforce.
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The recent surge in so-called second-screen behavior was vividly on display during last night's presidential debate, both on social networking sites and newer apps promoted by media companies. Said one viewer: “I can’t watch a debate anymore without having my iPhone in my hand. I don’t feel like I’m having the full experience if I’m not reading the reaction in real time.”
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GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney became the focus of another Twitter trend Monday — after he was caught on video telling an audience of wealthy donors that 47% of Americans “believe they are victims” and “will vote for this president [Obama] no matter what.”
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The Obama campaign posted nearly four times as much content as the Romney campaign and was active on nearly twice as many platforms. Obama’s digital content also engendered more response from the public — twice the number of shares, views and comments of his posts.”Obama also has twice the number of Twitter retweets and YouTube comments, likes or views as Romney, and nearly 80 percent more Facebook likes", according to the report.
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Clint Eastwood’s 12-minute rambling Republican National Convention speech endorsing presidential candidate Mitt Romney isn’t going “Unforgiven” in the viral world.
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Have you ever been sitting at home, watching the latest episode of Generic Sitcom, and during the commercial break you see all these political ads making wild claims and strong assertions? Well, get your iPhone out...
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At a time when we can see video shot by a robot on Mars and when we can deposit checks on our smartphones without going to a bank, why do most people still have to go to a polling place to vote? Will voting by smartphone be a reality by 2016? Probably not.
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Did you watch the election coverage Tuesday night? Did you notice Diane Sawyer slurring? Many people accused the legendary TV anchor of being drunk last night while covering the election while others insist that Sawyer was just exhausted. Read the tweets, watch the video. And you decide.
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Seen to many as a game changer throughout the election, social media made election day historic in more ways than one. Twitter, in particular had a profound impact, becoming "a kind of nationwide caucus." Of note: The Obama campaign used Twitter at an 8-1 ratio in comparison to Mitt Romney.
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The election may be over, but the online breakdown of how and why things went the way they did is still coming at us. Check out this infographic that analyzes the Facebook fan pages of both candidates in the final hours of the campaign to show some well-known and little known facts about the voters.
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Here's the one. The one that will join the Daisy Girl/Mushroom Cloud, Willie Horton and Swift Boats when we talk about political ads in the future. Writer, director and actress Lena Dunham equates voting for the first time with another big first. It should be "amazing" and girls, it should be with a guy "who cares about and understands women.
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Within hours of Mitt Romney's serious fumble on women in the workforce (he claimed to not know any as governor of Massachusetts and needed to be given "binders full of women" in order to find one or two fit to hire), Amazon.com's customer reviews on this popular office supply have taken on new meaning. Rather than getting a straightforward review of the product's durability and affordability, clever hacks have taken to the site to offer up how certain binders hold up to holding women in their place...and more.
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How will social media users vote in the upcoming U.S. presidential election? To find out, market research firm Lab42 surveyed 500 U.S. social media users.
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A survey reveals how Americans viewed the first presidential debate. The majority still used TV rather than digital devices. There wasn’t much difference across party lines — among Republicans, 9% went dual screen, as opposed to 11% of Democrats. Independents were the group that used two screens the most, at 13%.
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To read some people on the Internet, you’d think the election would be decided by who had the most followers and Tweeted the most about his or her favored candidate. The truth of the matter is that, even if you are the world’s most prolific political Twit with gobs of followers… those people (other than the spam bots) self-selected to follow you, meaning you’re either preaching to the converted or the trolls. In real life, most people don’t use Twitter — and, when they do, it’s not to get involved in politics. Some statistics on that, courtesy of the Pew Internet and American Life Project....
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Grindr, the gay hookup... er...um...dating site, is mobilizing its nearly 1.5 million US users in the presidential election and local elections to get out and vote for equality-minded candidates The campaign will send in-app targeted messages to members in all 50 states.
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The Republican Convention saw more than 4 million tweets with a peak of 14,743 tweets per minute and 2.5 million-plus YouTube views..... After the convention, Twitter noted that Barack Obama’s tweeted response to Clint Eastwood’s empty-chair routine was the most retweeted tweet of the RNC.
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Barack Obama's re-election campaign became the first presidential campaign in history to accept money via text messages, the campaign announced Thursday.
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