{"id":3305,"date":"2013-08-19T22:36:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T22:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2013-08-19T22:36:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T22:36:11","slug":"tweeting-can-be-hazardous-to-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3305","title":{"rendered":"Tweeting can be hazardous to campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Tweeting, twittering, twirling &#8230; whatever you want to call it, has become the new normal in modern American political campaigning.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that right, Greg Abbott?<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Tribune reports that Twitter has become a bane as well as a boon to campaigns, as Abbott is finding out.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/08\/19\/abbott-incident-highlights-risks-tweeting-candidat\/<\/p>\n<p>A fan of Abbott tweeted something quite derogatory the other day about state Sen. Wendy Davis, the Fort Worth Democrat who might enter the Texas governor&#8217;s race that already features Abbott, the state&#8217;s Republican attorney general. The Abbott fan called Davis &#8220;a retard Barbie.&#8221; Abbott thanked the individual for his support, was blasted by Texas Democratic officials, and then said in a follow-up tweet that he cannot control the language that supporters use on his behalf.<\/p>\n<p>But the fans of every candidate of every stripe are out there en masse &#8212; by the tens of millions &#8212; tossing thoughts into cyberspace. They might be reasonable and rational, or they might be idiotic and moronic.<\/p>\n<p>These candidates are having to take the good with the bad in this Social Media Age.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, political strategists are having to come up with ways to defend their candidates against the nonsense spewed out and the reaction to it from their opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with that.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweeting, twittering, twirling &#8230; whatever you want to call it, has become the new normal in modern American political campaigning. Isn&#8217;t that right, Greg Abbott? The Texas Tribune reports that Twitter has become a bane as well as a boon to campaigns, as Abbott is finding out. http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/08\/19\/abbott-incident-highlights-risks-tweeting-candidat\/ A fan of Abbott tweeted something quite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3305\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tweeting can be hazardous to campaigns<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2006,4300,4602,4691,4932,5218],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-greg-abbott","tag-social-media","tag-texas-democratic-party","tag-texas-republican-party","tag-twitter","tag-wendy-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}