Candidates are chasing votes online and here's how they are getting on

Joe Leogue crunches the data from ‘Irish Examiner’ collaborator Demos to show who’s hot and who’s not in the world of pre-election tweets
Candidates are chasing votes online and here's how they are getting on

POLITICAL anoraks love nothing more than having facts and figures at their disposal, statistics they can scrutinise and combine in the hope of looking into mathematical tea leaves and predicting the outcome of the election.

With the advent of the digital age, and all the communicative media that come with it, opportunities have arisen to analyse the way we talk about the election in a way that gives us some insight into how the public perceive our General Election candidates.

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