Akin controversy shows how social media made the story viral

[Coyotl]

http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2012/08/akin-controversy-shows-how-social-media-made-the-story-viral/
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A detailed look at how Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin’s controversial remarks went viral shows the potential huge role of social media in the electoral process.

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Once Talking Points Memo, a closely followed political blog and Web site, published the clip from American Bridge, the topic of “Todd Akin” quickly trended on Twitter and comments appeared on Facebook....

The first highly viewed Twitter message about Akin appeared at 2:34 p.m., within 30 minutes of the Talking Points Memo story. ....

The web site Gawker relayed the story at 2:45 p.m.

Within 45 minutes, the Washington Post was covering the story ...........

[still_one]

1. It was a little hard for them to ignore /nt

[Coyotl]

2. #WaronWomen debate continues

#WaronWomen debate continues as Todd Akin runs TV ad apology
http://storyful.com/stories/39264

... Women voters, according to opinion polls, are a key cohort that Obama or Romney must win on November. For months, the #WarOnWomen versus WarOnMoms has raged on Twitter as Democrats accused Republicans of “anti-women” policies ....

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Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee caused further controversy when he discussed the controversy on his radio programme on Tuesday. This is he said, as transcribed by the Los Angeles Times’ James Rainey:

“Ethel Waters, for example, was the result of a forcible rape,” Huckabee said of the late American gospel singer. One-time presidential candidate Huckabee added: “I used to work for James Robison back in the 1970s, he leads a large Christian organization. He, himself, was the result of a forcible rape. And so I know it happens, and yet even from those horrible, horrible tragedies of rape, which are inexcusable and indefensible, life has come and sometimes, you know, those people are able to do extraordinary things.”

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. I follow a bunch of science-types on the twitter and even they were going off

my fave so far..


GeoScienceWorld ‏@GeoScienceWorld
MT @callanbentley: What I understand from climate scientists, if it’s legitimate climate change, Earth has ways 2 shut that whole thing down

[Coyotl]

4. Good one! Yeah, warm up the earth and you get a super-volcano

followed by 10,000 years in a cold cave if you are the lucky few in a tropical refugia