Battle of the Social Network Stars
I had a couple minutes today so I decided to do some cruising through Facebook just to see how some of Indiana’s candidates are doing with their social network worlds. I tried to use campaign Facebook websites where possible. Now this is not to say whether your “friends” will translate into votes, but I think it does provide a peak into how candidates are using the medium to reach the populace.
Word of caution, I am friends or following all of the candidates because it helps me keep track of their campaigns and it is not to be taken as an endorsement of their candidacies. I like and dislike everybody equally.
So with that said, here’s where everybody stands as of when I wrote this post this morning, the numbers may have changed slightly since then.
U.S. Senate
- Dan Coats – 3,889 friends.
- Brad Ellsworth – 7,484 friends.
- Rebecca Sink-Burris – 742 friends.
2nd District
- Joe Donnelly – 1,848 friends.
- Jackie Walorski – 4,938 friends.
8th District
- Trent van Haaften – 1,279 friends.
- Larry Bucshon – 1,186 friends.
9th District
- Todd Young – 2,413 friends.
- Baron Hill – 2,219 friends.
Secretary of State*
- Charlie White – 1,916 friends.
- Vop Osili – 2,008 friends.
- Mike Wherry – 305 friends.
Auditor
Treasurer
- Richard Mourdock – 1,420 friends.
- Pete Buttigieg – 1,096 friends.
State Parties**
- Republicans – 805 friends/8,846 friends.
- Democrats – 627 friends/965 friends.
- Libertarians – 1,847 friends.
*Just for the record, if Facebook friends were votes, Libertarian Mike Wherry helps Libertarians keep their ballot access because he get seven percent of the total vote.
**State parties have a couple pages that I pulled the data from. HT to Matt Stone for the info.
