If Elections Were Fought on Facebook…

After a few recent tweets from gubernatorial candidate Pat Anderson about her facebook group being shut down for too rapid of growth, I thought I’d check in on some of the governor-hopefuls facebook groups.

Republicans:
Tom Emmer, 689
Pat Anderson, 721
Marty Seifert, 764

And the always popular “draft” mission:
Draft Laura Brod for Governor, 297

Democrats:
Matt Entenza, 32 (fan page, not group or supporter page)
Mark Dayton, 68
Susan Gaertner, 343
John Marty, 693
Margaret Anderson Kelliher, 864

And in the Draft:

R.T. Rybak, 596

Obviously, we won’t be casting out ballots in our status updates. But organizing online is a great way to engage with your supporters and get them involved in the most basic steps of the campaign. And facebook is making it even easier for supporters to spread campaign info for their favorite candidates.

See a candidate you want to support? Join their groups, or, if they don’t have one, offer to start it for him or her!
Note: I did not use personal pages, only support pages, be they fan pages, group pages or draft pages. Steve Kelley has only a personal page, so he was not included. Chris Coleman has only his personal page and his St. Paul campaign page, so he also was excluded.

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2 Comments

  1. Gordon says:
    August 25, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    Paul Thissen has a few hundred supporters on his page, too, and has been very active to using the electronic world to connect with supporters. Susan sends out a lot of donation requests, but rarely any substance. I find Marty’s stuff to be rather stiff and uninteresting (not surprising, I suppose).

  2. robinmarty says:
    August 26, 2009 at 10:45 am

    For those looking, Thissen’s page can be found here.

    http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=thissen&init=quick#/Thissen2010?ref=search&sid=564710398.1752414603..1

    He has 261 supporters currently.

    I’m surprised in general about how little the pages are being used at this point as more than just news feeds. Having this many supporters in one place would be a great place to poll on messages, start organizing house parties, even raise some funds. So far, no one seems to be doing much of that.

    Well, maybe after the Fair — that always seems to be the official season kickoff.

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