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It’s hard to say who won the first presidential debate last week.
The debate, which occurred Wednesday, which centered around healthcare, has since raised a lot of speculation around the candidates.
If Mitt Romney is elected president, he said he would want to drop ObamaCare. He thinks in the end it would hurt small business and in the end since those small business wouldn’t be able to pay for their employees healthcare, there would be fewer jobs available for hire.
President Obama debated his response by saying the ObamaCare allows young adults to stay on their parents plan until the age of 26, which would give young adults the relief of not having to find and pay healthcare for themselves most likely on a beginners salary.
“The irony is, we’ve seen this model work really well, in Massachusetts because Gov. Romney did a good thing; working with democrats in the state to set up what is essentially the identical model and as a consequence, people are covered there,” Obama said during the debate. “It hasn’t destroyed jobs and as a consequence we now have a situation where we now have the opportunity to start bringing down costs as opposed to just leaving millions of people out in the cold.”
Aside from healthcare both candidates also had to deal with something that wasn’t quite as prevalent in the last election; social networking.
Everybody has an opinion and with decisions as important as this presidential election, everyone feels the need to take it to Facebook or twitter for example, to voice those opinions.
Twitter has offered a great look into the debates just by simply searching the hashtag, debates. By doing so, a new page will appear giving the viewer a chance to look through important tweets ranging from both presidential and vice presidential candidates as well as well-known individuals involved in politics be it a news anchor or another politician.
By using the hashtag, one can look back through what these individuals had to say during the debate as well as anything that has happened since the debate aired.
In fact, according to the Vator News website, the debate broke twitter records by having a total of 10.3 million tweets in 90 minutes the most popular topics healthcare, Jim Lehrer, the debate’s middle man and Big Bird, who generated 17,000 tweets per minute.
Even Obama weighed in via twitter over the latter.
Twitter has even gone as far as creating a political index to show the daily sediments from twitter users while it evaluates their feelings toward the candidates.
The site will also give you stats on each candidate like how many twitter followers they have as well as their twitter handles.
Possibly the most interesting thing on the page however, is the historical chart at the bottom of the page.
By moving the cursor over the lines of the chart, the statistics for each candidate corresponds with the respective colors (blue for Democrats and red for Republicans), one can see the candidates popularity dating back to May 1.
Twitter plays a huge roll in our lives more than one may think. Even if someone misses the debates they can now view just about anything on the candidates and their stances on different topics are just by looking at what all twitter has to offer.
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