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Did you feel the Bern during Tuesday night’s Democratic debate?

Twitter users certainly did.

Bernie Sanders cleaned up on the social media service, rapidly outpacing the other four candidates when it came to adding new followers.

Sanders gained 35,163 new followers during the 150-minute debate. Meanwhile, the other four Democrats gained a total of just 23,219 new followers — combined — led by Hillary Clinton, who added 13,252 new Twitter followers by herself.

Below, I’ve graphed out how each candidate’s Twitter following grew across Tuesday night. Looking at the graph, you can see how Clinton gained a bit of steam in the last 90 minutes, and O’Malley slightly surging in the final hour.


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Let’s be clear. Twitter numbers aren’t guarantees of anything. Twitter followers can be bought or gamed. They don’t represent the national electorate, at all.

But they aren’t totally meaningless, either. Twitter’s a good indicator of enthusiasm for an idea, a celebrity …. or even a politician. Just look at what happened at the second Republican debate. Carly Fiorina saw a huge surge of Twitter followers — and her poll numbers reflected a similar jump, as Fiorina rocketed from fringe candidate to second place.

Couldn't bear to watch, went camping instead. Watched the highlights later.

From what I hear, all candidates were trying to "out-socialist" Bernie. Wow....can't believe that all of them think there are that many people who can be manipulated by envy? It's all about emotions on the far left, which I guess is all of them now.

Couldn't find a single proposal about how to get our dead economy working again, yet heard plenty of ideas for greatly increasing government spending. Are there people who actually believe that the rich are really going to get soaked....and that will help their lives somehow?

First of all, the rich (and their companies) have armies of lawyers to find the loopholes...they will raise prices to cover any increase, which means it gets passed on to you...and they will leave any city/State/Nation where they can't make a profit.

Secondly, any increase of tax money is going to come from the middle class and go to the pockets of lawyers/politicians. Not you.

Socialism in America? It's like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.


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"It's like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving."
That was a good one Yod!

"It's like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving."
That was a good one Yod!

glenny, ya got a little of that turkey gravy on yer nose. say.... that IS gravy, isn't it?????

drippin' off his nose, and he's lappin' it up.. finger lickin' good!

“We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. ”


“The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man”


“Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.”



― David Crockett

A TIMBER TOE??!!??! WHO'S GOT A TIMBER TOE? THEM'S IS FIGHTIN' WORDS!!!

Well, I'm going to jump up and call you a TIMBER TOE to your face!!!!

How do ya like me now????
evidently it means a "wooden leg"

It probably should be mentioned that Davy Crocket was killed by the Mexicans as soon as he got here. One of the heroes of the Alamo....but dead.

Santa Anna was attempting to enforce gun control on Texicans.

Davy Crockett was killed by the Mexicans after proposing a twenty foot high wall along the border with Mexico and even said he was going to make the Mexicans pay for it. And that wasn't a coonskin cap that he wore, it was a comb-over.

Did Ivana Crockett tell you that?


They had a wall around the Alamo, but the Mexicans jumped over it...

Need a bigger one with more guards next time.

REAL PEOPLE... It's BLACK... A$$HOLES... No it's not, it's red you snot nosed little pencil dick.

REAL PEOPLE... NO I looked at it again and it's still black...

A$$HOLES... Obviously you are a color blind moron that shouldn't even have the right to drip snot on this planet any more. Further more since it is obvious you are a pencil dick liar with no concern for any one you should just disappear.

Now there was a joke about all the body parts talking about who should be BOSSS. When the A$$HOLE put in for the job everyone laughed until the A$$HOLE shut down and squeezed the rest of the body parts into submission...

Obviously it wasn't that funny.

NO... It's your way of showing on a personal insulting basis you are OUT of CONTROL.

That's all you guys do is spew insults. You had to have me explain that to you? DUH!

REAL PEOPLE... It's BLACK... A$$HOLES... No it's not, it's red you snot nosed little pencil dick.

REAL PEOPLE... NO I looked at it again and it's still black...

A$$HOLES... Obviously you are a color blind moron that shouldn't even have the right to drip snot on this planet any more. Further more since it is obvious you are a pencil dick liar with no concern for any one you should just disappear.

glen, is this the kind of stuff that got you awarded Good Will Ambassador Of The Year?

starting a post w calling someone a " snot nosed pencil dick"....that's got to be SOME kind of violation, no?