Question for Hillary?

[brooklynite]

https://www.facebook.com/hillaryclinton/posts/989616451094884

Hillary Clinton started a Q&A.

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Question for Hillary? Leave it below--she'll be back soon to start a live Facebook Q&A on everything from health care to college affordability.

[Fearless]

1. I'm sure her staffers have loads of carefully worded positions

To cut and paste to the questions.

[riversedge]

3. oh, stop with the crap and see what is said. Why run down an informative post of a

Dem. candidate?? Why??

[Fearless]

5. Because you make it seem like she is actually answering questions

She isn't.

[riversedge]

7. Your post was a snark and you know it. BTW--why do you claim Hillary

is not answering these questions herself?? Have you looked at her Facebook responses?? She gives long responses just as she does in her interviews.

[Fearless]

8. She has better things to do than comb through dozens or hundreds of Facebook posts

This is the same for most politicians and many public figures. Their publicists are in charge of their social media and their teams man them. Occasionally they will take part, for instance, Bernie live tweeted the RNC debates and I seem to remember Obama doing something regarding answering questions posed from social media... although that was in a live format with selected questions previously screened., but for the vast majority of the time, an intern or paid publicist is actually answering the messages. They give standard replies.

Sorry to burst the bubble, but frankly it's probably a good thing that our candidates aren't spending their entire days on social media.

In regards to Hillary in specific, as Secretary of State her office did spend more than $870k on a social media presence... and that's not Hillary sitting at a computer.

Edit to add:

Going through the questions now on that link... I also find it terribly suspicious that nearly all of the posts are from professional journalists or else someone who almost verbatim begins by saying... I'm always a fan so here's this softball question or else "dear future president".

It is all very fishy to me. Sounds like a concerted effort to stage a Q&A.

[Fearless]

9. Case and point...

Bernie Sanders might still be trailing Hillary in all the national polls, but late last month he took the lead in a more newfangled — if possibly meaningless — measure of political strength: Facebook love. According to data obtained by Quintly, a social media analytics firm, Sanders’ presidential campaign page began the day of Saturday, August 22 with 1,197,290 likes to Clinton’s 1,199,797. By the end of the day, he had 1,218,879 to her 1,205,437. His lead has only increased since then.

Sanders’ success comes despite some suggestions that the Clinton campaign has been padding its totals on Facebook with purchased likes. Back in April, Vocative, a data mining media site, reported that Clinton’s presidential campaign page was more popular among Facebook users in Baghdad than any American city. And a further side-by-side comparison of both candidates’ page data shows that, over the last month, 95% of Sanders’ growth came from within the United States, while for Clinton that number is only 74%.

Oftentimes, so-called “click farms” are based out of developing countries and employ legions of low-paid workers to create fake Facebook profiles and then like the pages of clients. Clinton has seen strong growth over the last several weeks in followers in developing countries. To cite a single example, her followers in Myanmar tripled, to 18,150. (By contrast, Sanders’ share of foreign followers is much smaller and comes mostly from Western Europe.) This doesn’t necessarily mean Clinton’s campaign was paying click-farms directly — sometimes customers buy ads from Facebook, which promises to generate a certain number of likes, and those end up coming from click farms — but that didn’t stop some Reddit users from accusing her of buying likes to stave off Sanders.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/sanders-has-army-die-hard-facebook-fans-while-clintons-campaign-trying-buy-popularity

[Metric System]

2. I scrolled through a lot of the questions and I must say I am impressed. I was expecting more snark,

rudeness and other silliness, but the majority are substantive questions.

[riversedge]

4. Lots of good questions-some can be answered if folks read her issues website but this

is ok to ask

[riversedge]

6. Clinton calls out Turing CEO by name asking: "Lower the cost today to its original price."

Xposted from Hillary Group but also fits here.

Tweet:

Adam Smith retweeted
Alex Seitz-Wald ‏@aseitzwald 6m6 minutes ago

Hillary Clinton calls out Turing CEO by name asking: "Lower the cost today to its original price." https://www.facebook.com/hillaryclinton/posts/989616451094884?comment_id=989622241094305&reply_comment_id=989640077759188&total_comments=7&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D …


Here is the entire post from facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/hillaryclinton/posts/989616451094884

Michelle Gallion Hi i'm supporting you as always my question is how can we get prescription drug cost down for everyone not just Medicare
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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton Did you see the outcry last week about the former hedge fund manager who bought up drug patents, then raised the price of medicine for AIDS patients by more than 5000%? He still hasn’t said how much the drug will cost going forward, and in the meantime, sick patients still have to wait and worry and continue to pay $750/pill. So Mr. Shkreli, what’s it going to be? Do the right thing. Lower the cost today to its original price. There are other drug companies gouging Americans with higher prices than they charge other people around the world. We want to reward innovation, but right now consumers don't know if they are buying value or simply subsidizing high profits. That’s why I proposed a plan to make prescription drugs more affordable and hold companies accountable. Force drug manufacturers to justify their prices, make sure they add real value. Require the largest drug manufacturers to invest a minimum amount in R&D. And - a new idea to chew on - let's explore using some of these new research funds to invest directly in producing generic competitors where none exists. -H
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