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New Study Suggests Twitter Could Be Greg Abbott's Achilles Heel Vs. Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis hasn't even entered the race for Texas Governor yet and the Republican front-runner Greg Abbott is already explaining -- thanks to Barbie-gate. The AG may be sitting on over 20 million in the bank but a new study suggests we should be comparing their twitter capital instead.
The Indiana University researchers found that of 406 competitive U.S. congressional elections in 2010, 93% were won by the candidate that received more mentions on twitter.
http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/13973/new-study-suggests-twitter-could-be-greg-abbotts-achilles-heel-vs-wendy-davis