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I am pretty certain Facebook has the data to crunch very accurate predictions in elections large and small.



Based on what? I think part of the problem with our politics these days is confusing social media engagement / metrics (specifically twitter) with national sentiment. Seems like there's a large mass of unobserved "silent" Americans out there.




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