Bernie Sanders Clearly Won Tuesday's Debate -- On Twitter

Source: Forbes

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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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.

Read more: http://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamond/2015/10/13/bernie-sanders-clearly-won-the-debate-on-twitter/

William Pitt stated:

World Parliament, the Dalai Lama and my cousin

Cross post from GD. I'm guessing people in this group are familiar with the Parliament of World's Religions

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027253175

World Parliament, the Dalai Lama and my cousin

My cousin, Molly, is the Communications Director for The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions. She works closely with some very important and interesting people. They, including Molly, have a deep conviction and passion to make this a better world.

This interfaith organization has done unbelievable work toward peace. Molly has been a huge part of that for the last few years. She works tirelessly, for very little and often to the detriment of personal relationships. There is no time that this is more true than working up to the parliament. Months of nearly round the clock work by her and the small team in Chicago, goes into making it a success.

This year the Dalai Lama was to be a main speaker. He is a master at invoking feelings of solidarity and peace. Very unfortunately, the Dalai Lama became ill once he made it to the US.

This very holy, peace loving and generous man, was admitted to Mayo Clinic. I don't know any details as to why or what was wrong. But whatever it is, or was, he cannot attend the World Parliament.

My cousin sent me a text the other night when she was standing outside the Mayo clinic. She told me how he, The Dalai Lama, had very generously offered to allow them to record him. They could then present the recording at the World Parliament.

Lo and behold, the next text I received was just a picture:



Molly on the left, holding hands with the Dalai Lama.

I couldn't be prouder of Molly. I've known her all her life. She went from being a little one I babysat, to a teenager I tried to help mentor and for whom I would advocate when those inevitable, teenage/parent problems appeared, to being a dear, loving friend. Sometimes it just works out that not being able to pick your relatives is the luckiest thing that could ever happen.

Molly's mother was my first cousin. She, also, was a dear friend. We lost her over nine years ago now. I can almost hear the excitement, joy and pride coming from Molly's mom. She would be doing cartwheels while on the phone with every relative in the world, bragging about her daughter. While I don't believe in God, I do believe in the energy that people put out. And I believe, that energy stays with us. In that aspect, I'm positive that Molly's mother is with her and her love is shining through Molly.

Here's a link to the World Parliament website.

http://www.parliamentofreligions.org/

I believe there are still tickets left. I'm hoping to attend to see Jane Goodall

Please eat responsibly and buy humane products

I love meat. I'm not even going to pretend I'll give it up. I believe our bodies need it and I know we are carnivorous. (Yes, I know we're omnivores.) I'm so not going to get into a discussion about about that.

However, there is no reason, other than income, or more accurately, lack of income, which can be devastating on diet, not to purchase meat that came from humanely raised and killed animals.

I have zero to do with this blog. I'm not gaining anything by posting it. But I have found it to be fabulous when looking for the truth in the claims by corporations in their meat. So many claim to be organic and humane when in reality, not so much. Check this for humane products. Certified Humane

There are other organizations that certify humane. I just found this one to be very reliable

This is the end, beautiful friend,

I'll start

Great idea for a group. Thank you

I don't really have anything to say here, yet. Just thanks

can you please make an entire thread go away?

Democrat Since Birth posted this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251654332

I called his office and posted this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251654504

DSBsaid you once deleted a thread for him when something similar went on. He would feel better with mine gone. Since I don't want him hurting from the post and thread, we discussed and I said I would ask.

Thank you for your consideration

Mary

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Hmmm. One might think that this Bernie guy will win it

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The Bernie Sanders revolution will not be stopped!

I live in an area with many more older people than young. This is a, mostly, blue collar county, filled with people that have been here since the 50s and 60s. Every event I've been to here has had a greater majority of people over 50. In fact, many are over 60 and into their 80s. Some of whom have been activists their entire lives, some, this is the first time they've ever campaigned for anyone.

While in Oakland, the events I've been to are filled with younger people. College students, grad students, mostly first time activists. Because they're sick of what we've handed them. They want their children to inherit a better place. A greener, cleaner, healthier, income equal and unbigoted, racism free place with no war on women, education or minorities. A nation that cares and doesn't allow children to go hungry or profit from incarcerating people.

The Bernie revolution is sweeping the nation. People from all walks of life, in all age groups, every minority group, men and women alike, and even every color of the political spectrum, are joining in, excited about and fighting for Bernie Sanders to be elected to the White House.

This is a movement that is unprecedented in modern history. We won't shut up. We won't sit down. We will not allow corporate media to shut us out.

We're here. We're queer. We're black. We're white. We're brown and yellow. We're old. We're young. We're religious. We're atheist. We're socialist and we're conservative. We're rich. We're poor. We're loud and proud.

And we're fed up with the oligarchs.

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