In this paper, we present quantitative and qualitative analysis of the top retweeted tweets (viral tweets) pertaining to the US presidential elections from September 1, 2016 to Election Day on November 8, 2016. For everyday, we tagged the top 50 most retweeted tweets as supporting or attacking either candidate or as neutral/irrelevant. Then we analyzed […]
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What a Man: Maine Democratic Rep Makes Physical Threat Against ‘Pu**y’ Trump…
A Democratic state lawmaker in Maine appears to have made a death threat against President Trump. “Trump is a half term president, at most, especially if I ever get within 10 feet of that pussy,” Rep. Scott Hamann wrote in a lengthy Facebook tirade on Tuesday. Hamann, who represents a district in South Portland and […]
Warren Takes Early Salvo from GOP Hopeful: ‘A Real Indian Can Defeat a Fake Indian’…Ouch!!!…
Entrepreneur Shiva Ayyadurai has thrown down a rhetorical gauntlet to critics of his plan to unseat Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2018: “Only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian.” Fox Business Network invited Cambridge’s start-up king on air Wednesday to discuss his realization of the American dream as an immigrant in 1970. Mr. […]
Supreme Court Case May Shake Up Elections…
The Supreme Court is set to take a serious look at partisan gerrymandering with a case that could jeopardize voter maps across the country and help Democrats regain control of Congress. The case, which will be heard next term, will be closely followed by lawmakers, since the outcome could define how far state legislatures can […]
DHS Leaker Attacks ICE Whistleblower Praised by Trump Campaign, then-Senator Jeff Sessions…
The unnamed DHS leaker told The Daily Beast: “The ICE workforce, which Chris Crane claims to support, would be far better served if he focused his efforts on supporting ICE’s expanded enforcement priorities, instead of undermining them with false personal attacks,” said a DHS official. “Mr. Crane’s comments are strikingly out of touch with the […]
Hillary Plots to Revive Clintonism in 2018 Elections…
Although Clinton lost the election, she is still trying to run the Democratic Party by other means. The Hill reported on July 8 that Hillary Clinton is planning to campaign and fundraise for Democratic congressional candidates in 2018. The article states that she will use her Super PAC, Onward Together, as a fundraising apparatus. In […]
Oh Goodie, Now Antifa Is Reaching Out to Liberals to Embrace Violence…America Spring, Anybody?…
An “open letter” published on an anarchist website urges liberals and progressives to take the side of violent “anti-fascist” (Antifa) groups. Antifa have often embraced violent acts like rioting, breaking storefronts, and beating political opponents on the streets, which has correlated with an increasing number of violent incidents directed at conservatives and Republicans. It’s Going […]
STUDY: Clinton Lost Because PA, WI and MI Saw Her As Pro War Given Their High Military Service Casualty Rates…
Last fall I winced whenever Hillary Clinton or her surrogates promised regime change in Syria. Don’t these people get it? Americans don’t want to be waging more wars in the Middle East. Now an important new study has come out showing that Clinton paid for this arrogance: professors argue that Clinton lost the battleground states […]
Stephen Hawking’s Indefensible Politicization of Science…
Stephen Hawking is at it again. Two months ago the wheelchair-bound British scientist warned we were in danger of going extinct within a hundred years and must, therefore, start colonizing Mars. Now he’s warning that President Trump will singlehandedly cause Earth to become as hot and lifeless as Venus. “By denying the evidence…
Donald Trump Jr. ‘happy to work with committee to pass on what I know’…
Donald Trump Jr. said Monday that he is willing to meet with the Senate Intelligence Committee and any other committee to discuss his meeting last year with a Russian lawyer who offered damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Trump Jr. made his availability known in a tweet while responding to comments from Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, […]
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House Dem IT Suspects Wanted Untraceable Payments — And Sure Enough, Millions Disappeared…
A Pakistani family under criminal investigation by the U.S. Capitol Police for abusing their access to the House of Representatives information technology (IT) system may have engaged in myriad other questionable schemes besides allegedly placing “ghost employees” on the congressional payroll. Imran Awan, his wife Hina, and brothers Abid and Jamal collectively netted more than […]
Liberal Bias Starts Long Before College by Maria Biery…
There are too many examples of college campus craziness to count. There are entire websites—such as Campus Reform and The College Fix—that specialize in reporting the liberal bias, political correctness, and all around daily madness of institutions of higher education. However, for all the attention we give to these episodes at the collegiate level, we […]
The Democrats’ Russia-gate Obsession by Norman Solomon…
Some leading Democrats in Congress are eager to turn the summit meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin away from avenues for improvements in U.S.-Russian relations, even if that means deflecting it toward World War III. On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that “the White House announced that the meeting with Mr. Putin would […]
What Obama’s Indonesia Trip Revealed About His Post-Presidency…
Though Obama’s speech certainly included issues related to Indonesia in particular, it also had a broader message about addressing the challenges brought about by globalization and technological change that he has sought to spread in his post-presidency so far. Like many of his other speeches, Obama’s address at the conference – a biennial event established […]
Project Veritas Drops Another Video Bomb…This One Is about the Angst Behind Gov Cuomo’s Brother…
CNN associate producer Jimmy Carr says Chris Cuomo is only anchor of CNN’s “New Day” because his brother is governor of New York in yet another undercover video from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas. In the video posted Wednesday, Carr said of Cuomo’s rise, “I don’t have a brother who’s the governor, so … ” The […]
The Savior: Obama Tells Democrats He’s Back to Rebuild the Party He Helped Destroy…
The savior is returning. Barack Obama may get back into the trenches to help his party, which was widely expected, especially with the midterm season upon us. The former president is reportedly having regular check-ins with Democratic Party leaders, with speculation that he’s aiming to rebuild the party he helped destroy over the course of […]
Former Clinton Foundation Donors Flocking To The McCain Institute…
With the Clinton Foundation standing at the heart of the many scandals that dogged Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign, it was no small wonder that donations to her family’s controversial charity began to dry up soon after her loss last November. Just weeks after the election, donations to the foundation from foreign governments plummeted, […]
First the New York Times, Now the AP Corrects Falsehood in Four Trump-Russia Reports…
The Associated Press “clarified” a false claim it’s been running in stories about President Trump and Russia on Friday, conceding in a release it’s not the case that 17 intelligence agencies “agreed” on the hacking narrative. The correction to four reports on Trump and Russia comes the same day The New York Times issued a […]
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Financial Disclosures of More than 400 Officials Trump Has Installed Across the Government…
ProPublica has been collecting disclosure forms that lay out Trump administration officials’ financial holdings and employment backgrounds. We now have disclosures from more than 400 officials and we’re sharing them with you. They are from White House staffers, President Trump’s Cabinet and from the hundreds of members of so-called beachhead teams that the administration has […]
American Pravda Part 3/3: CNN Selectively Edits, Hates Trump and Think Voters Are Stupid (VIDEO)…
“On the inside, we all recognize he is a clown that he is hilariously unqualified for this. He’s really bad at this and that he does not have America’s best interests. We recognize he’s just fucking crazy.” He continues to attack Trump personally, instead of focusing on his policy: “He’s not actually a Republican. He […]
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