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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Fri May 6, 2016, 05:15 PM May 2016

This is the most-liked Instagram post of the presidential election

No, Donald Trump does not have the most-liked post of the election. He’s not even in the top 10.

The honor goes to Bernie Sanders, who swept all 10 spots when it comes to posts with the highest number of Instagram responses, according to data provided by the photo-sharing app. The top post (see below) has 119,000 likes. He might not be competing with Instagram’s top users — the Kardashian/Jenner clan regularly net millions of likes — but that’s pretty good for a politician.

After all, Instagrammers are Bernie’s demographic this election. For instance, CNN’s exit polling after last month’s New York primary found Sanders took 72 percent of state voters ages 18 to 29, compared with Hillary Clinton’s 28 percent. It’s likely a lot of those voters use Instagram.

Check out the top 10 posts — again, all from Sanders — below:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/05/06/this-is-the-most-liked-instagram-post-of-the-presidential-election/

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This is the most-liked Instagram post of the presidential election (Original Post) Playinghardball May 2016 OP
No wonder he's winning .... salinsky May 2016 #1
and he wins 100% on every poll ins the sanders group on DU as well nt msongs May 2016 #2
That does not factor into deciding the nomination KingFlorez May 2016 #3
OP said nothing about the nomination. Why'd you bring it up? hellofromreddit May 2016 #4
It's clear what the intent was KingFlorez May 2016 #5
Oh, it was your imagination. hellofromreddit May 2016 #6
Yeah, sure KingFlorez May 2016 #11
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe May 2016 #7
Beautiful... kgnu_fan May 2016 #8
Nice vintx May 2016 #9
If only we could pick our President based on how many likes an Instagram post gets justiceischeap May 2016 #10

KingFlorez

(12,689 posts)
3. That does not factor into deciding the nomination
Fri May 6, 2016, 06:07 PM
May 2016

You can't ask for the rules to be changed based on something so trivial. Votes decide the primary, not Instagram posts.

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
10. If only we could pick our President based on how many likes an Instagram post gets
Fri May 6, 2016, 06:19 PM
May 2016

Things would be so much easier, though I doubt we'd have less money spent on the campaigning. It'd be just like high school and the most popular kid wins.

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