Indiana

Battle of the Social Network Stars

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

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

• Tim Berry – 543 friends.
• Sam Locke – 1,355 friends.

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.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on August 31, 2010 (boomark / email).