*ongoing* Romney FB likes crash as Ron Paul's steadily rises

[Slutter McGee]

uhhhhh last time i checked, 11 million is higher then 1.1 mill.

You apparently have the reading comprehension of my right nut sack.

Sincerely,

Slutter McGee

 

[psi2941]

You apparently have the reading comprehension of my right nut sack.

Sincerely,

Slutter McGee

again, you guys bitch when the media spins the story of ron paul but this is a clear spin.
Ron Paul has a facebook like of 1.1 mill
Romney has a facebook like of 11 mill.

yea ron paul is increasing and romney has been decreasing. However it doesn't change the fact Romney is 10 million ahead and when it comes to votes 11 million is better than 1.1 million. Thus you apparently have a math/logic comprehension of my left nut sack.

 

[TCE]

uhhhhh last time i checked, 11 million is higher then 1.1 mill.

Count on Slutter to be as blunt as a heart attack. The point is, both candidates are out of the political world. Ron has been out of the race for quite some time now and yet, his "Likes" continue to rise. Meanwhile, Romney's continue to crash. That bodes well for the future regarding what ideas will persist. You are correct that 11 million is obviously a lot bigger than 1 million, but also consider that a ton of those Romney "likes" aren't active. Additionally, a lot of people don't actively dislike pages.

 

[itshappening]

Rand is adding 10,000 /week incredible...


He's closing in on 500k mark now.

Hopefully we get to 1 million for when he announces,

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

Count on Slutter to be as blunt as a heart attack. The point is, both candidates are out of the political world. Ron has been out of the race for quite some time now and yet, his "Likes" continue to rise. Meanwhile, Romney's continue to crash. That bodes well for the future regarding what ideas will persist. You are correct that 11 million is obviously a lot bigger than 1 million, but also consider that a ton of those Romney "likes" aren't active. Additionally, a lot of people don't actively dislike pages.

Though I don't see how one can fault someone for simply pointing out what's right in front of them. Crashing or rising, there's still a huge gap that you cannot ignore, I don't care how optimistic one wants to be. It's still a long way to go. Nothing wrong with pointing that out. It's not pessimism, it's realism. We don't know every single person behind the likes on either page and one can speculate that 'these likes were bought' or 'these are from inactive profiles' and blah blah blah, it's still a large gap. A slowly but surely closing gap, but a large gap nonetheless.

 

[TCE]

Though I don't see how one can fault someone for simply pointing out what's right in front of them. Crashing or rising, there's still a huge gap that you cannot ignore, I don't care how optimistic one wants to be. It's still a long way to go. Nothing wrong with pointing that out. It's not pessimism, it's realism. We don't know every single person behind the likes on either page and one can speculate that 'these likes were bought' or 'these are from inactive profiles' and blah blah blah, it's still a large gap. A slowly but surely closing gap, but a large gap nonetheless.

Fair enough.

 

[sailingaway]

Count on Slutter to be as blunt as a heart attack. The point is, both candidates are out of the political world. Ron has been out of the race for quite some time now and yet, his "Likes" continue to rise. Meanwhile, Romney's continue to crash. That bodes well for the future regarding what ideas will persist. You are correct that 11 million is obviously a lot bigger than 1 million, but also consider that a ton of those Romney "likes" aren't active. Additionally, a lot of people don't actively dislike pages.

I'd be willing to bet a ton of Romney's aren't REAL. I think he's pragmatic enough to purchase them. Who 'unlikes' a page? I think the contracts are running out.

And yeah, Romney has a ton, but he was Gop nominee, he should. obama has more, he's president. Ron is a retired congressman who ran for president -- and he just got a couple thousand more likes in the last couple of weeks.

 

[eleganz]

Updated. Rand on the move! Ron = slow and steady wins the race.

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

I'd be willing to bet a ton of Romney's aren't REAL. I think he's pragmatic enough to purchase them. Who 'unlikes' a page? I think the contracts are running out.

And yeah, Romney has a ton, but he was Gop nominee, he should. obama has more, he's president. Ron is a retired congressman who ran for president -- and he just got a couple thousand more likes in the last couple of weeks.

If you can unfriend a person on Facebook or stop subscribing to a page, it makes just as much sense for a person to 'unlike' a page. You don't like it anymore, you lose interest, something happened with it that bothers you, it's not an impossible scenario.

 

[sailingaway]

If you can unfriend a person on Facebook or stop subscribing to a page, it makes just as much sense for a person to 'unlike' a page. You don't like it anymore, you lose interest, something happened with it that bothers you, it's not an impossible scenario.

Not impossible, but for a campaign that is over and no longer posting, pretty unlikely. What makes you unlike? You'd have to search for them in your following list or look up their page on purpose unless they are posting and you can just 'unlike' through the link. Tens of thousands a day are doing this? Snow in Los Angeles is 'possible' and has happened, but if someone told me it was happening every day, I'd be skeptical.

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

Count on Slutter to be as blunt as a heart attack. The point is, both candidates are out of the political world. Ron has been out of the race for quite some time now and yet, his "Likes" continue to rise. Meanwhile, Romney's continue to crash. That bodes well for the future regarding what ideas will persist. You are correct that 11 million is obviously a lot bigger than 1 million, but also consider that a ton of those Romney "likes" aren't active. Additionally, a lot of people don't actively dislike pages.

In the case of Romney, that will somewhat depend on whether his page is dormant or not. If it's still spewing Romney bullshit, I would not be surprised to see people actively ditching it.

In the case of Paul, that will somewhat depend on whether we are dormant or not.

 

[roho76]

Ron is getting more likes than Rubio. Ha.

 

[eleganz]

Wow, Rand got a huge spike, and it was probably from grilling Hillary on Benghazi.

 

[IndianaPolitico]

Rand's likes are really going up! Liking the trend...

 

[eleganz]

Apparently I was two days late to check in and update this thread. I get busy at random times and forget to do it, I forgot the last few times.

If anybody else wants to help out (rudeman, kathy) your help is still welcome!

Just make sure you go off the latest number from the OP and get it on the next date.

Thanks!

 

[eleganz]

Ron Paul twitter controversy:

He actually lost facebook likes LOL!!!!!

2/4/13 - 1,118,151

 

[Jackie Moon]

Yeah, I've been watching the numbers drop this afternoon. And the Facebook message he posted was actually a pretty good one, so it must be a response to the Twitter stuff.

Hopefully it's just a small temporary dip.

 

[Rudeman]

Well he's gained some likes in the last 3 hours:
1,118,164 <---- Edit: Initial total for Ron

That's 6 more than he had on the 30th and 13 more than when eleganz checked.

On the other hand it appears that Rand's likes have spiked since the 30th (not sure if it has anything to do with it):
566,445 <---- Edit: Initial total for Rand

That's 21,544 more likes than he had on the 30th, a pretty big jump in less than a week.


Edit I just refreshed both pages and both are picking up more likes, but Rand is at a faster pace:
Ron 4 minutes later: 1,118,170 + 6
Rand 4 minutes later: 566,462 + 17


If I don't forget I'll check what they're both at in an hour or so.

Edit #2:
An hour later
Ron: 1,118,180 + 16 since initial post.
Rand: 566,556 + 111 since initial post.

 

[Rudeman]

A day later it looks like the Ron Paul downward dip is over and he's moving back up albeit at a slow pace and Rand is still experiencing a spike in likes:
Ron - 1,118,209 +45 since initial previous post
Rand - 568,359 +1914 since initial previous post

 

[Jackie Moon]

Whew, nice to see that he's headed back in the right direction. Luckily that wasn't a very big loss.

And Rand is really gaining, he's had between 4,000 and 5,000 new likes a day since January 24th.

If he were able to continue at this rate he'd reach 1,000,000 likes in May.