Social buzz around U.S Presidential elections 2012 - 4 [SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMARY]
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President Obama received the highest percentage of social media conversation at 34% this week due to his State of the Union address, however the sentiment around it was divided with around equal percentages of negative and positive buzz. Mitt Romney received the second highest conversation at 22% but had the highest percentage of negative chatter, particularly around his tax returns. Newt Gingrich saw his conversation share rise to 16% after his South Carolina primary win, with discussion focused on his tax policy comments and victory.
Social buzz around U.S Presidential elections 2012 - 4 [SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMARY]
- 1. Social buzz around U.S Presidential elections 2012 - 4 Analysis of the social media buzz for candidates running for President between 19 th January to 25 th January, 2012
- 2. Candidates Analysed*… BARACK OBAMA RON PAUL MITT ROMNEY RICK PERRY NEWT GINGRICH RICK SANTORUM *This week’s analysis does not include Jon Huntsman since he has dropped out of the Presidential elections Images: Wikipedia
- 3. In comparison to last week… Barack Obama’s share of conversation was the highest at 34%, primarily due to the SOTU address by him last week Mitt Romney’s share of conversation decreased by 2 percentage points at 22% Gingrich’s shot to 16% , primarily due to his stunning victory at South Carolina Positive Buzz – 32% Negative Buzz – 39% Neutral Buzz – 29% President Obama’s State of the Union address garnered negative buzz especially from Microblogs Overall Share-of-voice Sentiment break-up for Barack Obama
- 4. Sentiment around SOTU was divided, with percentage of negative and positive buzz being almost the same Most popular topics pertaining to the president’s address were pertaining to taxes , jobs and the state of the economy under Obama’s leadership Topical Trends for The State of the Union Speech Break-up of Sentiment
- 5. Bloggers seemed to have an affinity towards Rick Perry instead, with the highest number of blogs being written after his drop out President Obama’s SOTU address dominated conversations on Twitter, the majority of which were negative. The second highest percentage of buzz around him was contributed by online news. to last week, when people were cheering his decision to stop the SOPA Candidate Mitt Romney garnered highest percentage of buzz on Facebook, in comparison to his contenders Break-up of chatter across channels
- 6. Sentiment around Newt Gingrich largely neutral Mitt Romney, who managed 27.8% votes in his favour, had the highest percentage of negative chatter around him. His confession of paying a lower rate on his multimillion-dollar income than the average American was mainly responsible for this Ron Paul’s votes might be a meager 13%, but he has been leading with maximum percentage of positive buzz for 4 weeks in a row As for candidate Rick Perry, the amount of positive buzz was almost twice as much as the negative buzz Although Obama’s SOTU address did lead to negative buzz, but overall the positive conversations outnumbered the negative Could also be attributed to the popularity of the video featuring Barack Obama, wherein he sings Al Greene’s ‘let’s stay together’. This video got 4 million hits and also saw an overwhelming amount of shares Break-up of sentiment
- 7. Majority of conversations around Gingrich were related to his astonishing victory at the Primary. In addition, people also widely debated and shared Gingrich’s comments about Obama’s tax policy discussed during his speech The chatter around Rick Perry was pertaining to his decision to drop out of the GOP race and endorse Mitt Romney instead. The topical trends also reflect chatter about Perry’s referral to social security as a Ponzi scheme, made a few months back Topical Trends for Newt Gingrich Topical Trends for Rick Perry *Topical trends highlight topics associated with the primary keyword. The size of words indicate the frequency of occurrence
- 8. Topical Trends for Mitt Romney Topical Trends for Barack Obama Romney’s pre-emptive rebuttal on President Obama’s SOTU was a far more popular topic as compared to his loss at the South Carolina Primary. The topic that drove significant amount of negative chatter around Romney was pertaining to his tax returns For Obama, as expected the dominant share of conversation was around his much awaited State of the Union address, in which he pledged to increase spending on education, infrastructure and job creation
- 9. Topical Trends for Ron Paul Topical Trends for Rick Santorum Ron Paul‘s proposal to decriminalise marijuana was met with harsh criticism online. Although some might argue that legalising drugs is his least controversial idea, social media sites claim otherwise Rick Santorum’s claim that he would urge his daughter not to have an abortion even after rape, it gave rise to a large quantum of negative chatter Another popular topic of discussion was Santorum’s 19 year old nephew bashing his own uncle over a political history in a piece entitled, “The trouble with my uncle”
- 10. To sum it up.. Although social media was buzzing with conversations around Barack Obama this week, not all buzz was positive. Amongst the Republican candidates, Mitt Romney continues to dominate the chatter online. As for South Carolina Primary winner Newt Gingrich, will his lack of popularity on social media sites affect the votes during the Primary next week in Florida? To find out, catch our update next week as we dissect the social buzz, sentiment and topics around your favourite candidates..
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