Discussion: Twitter IDs Nearly 200 Russia-Linked Accounts, Says RT Bought $274K In Ads

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There is also the fact that more Sander supporters supported Clinton in the General Election than Clinton supporters supported Obama in 2008:

How many Sanders voters voted for Donald Trump?

Two surveys estimate that 12 percent of Sanders voters voted for Trump. A third survey suggests it was 6 percent.

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Another useful comparison is to 2008, when the question was whether Clinton supporters would vote for Barack Obama or John McCain (R-Ariz.) Based on data from the 2008 Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project, a YouGov survey that also interviewed respondents multiple times during the campaign, 24 percent of people who supported Clinton in the primary as of March 2008 then reported voting for McCain in the general election.

“Bros” did their bit for the Party, by a factor of two to four times more than “Hillbots” did for the Party in 2008.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/24/did-enough-bernie-sanders-supporters-vote-for-trump-to-cost-clinton-the-election/?utm_term=.64305fe32051

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Hey, @nemo, agreed! If you want to check out my colleague Tierney Sneed’s piece about Sen. Mark Warner’s reaction to the briefing you can see him have a similar reaction. Twitter only found those 201 accounts by looking at Facebook’s findings. They didn’t do an affirmative review of their own network, which the Intel committee apparently found pretty disrespectful.

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