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Bernie Sanders Wants to Be President, but Hes Already Facebook Royalty
By NICK CORASANITI MAY 18, 2015 (New York Times)
WASHINGTON The quotes he posts are rarely pithy, and often sayings he thinks up in the shower. The photographs he puts up sometimes show him frowning, while others show him gazing oddly into the horizon. And he does not seem to care about the importance of videos.
But somehow, Bernie Sanders, the 73-year-old senator from Vermont, has emerged as a king of social media early in the 2016 presidential campaign, amid a field of tech-savvy contenders.
His Facebook posts attract tens of thousands of likes and shares, and threads about him often break through to the home page of Reddit, where the cluster of topics rarely focuses on presidential election politics.
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Mr. Sanderss prominence online is all the more improbable given that he does not do many things the way social media experts say they should be done ...
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