Conflicting views on #Election2016

Posted on by Madeleine Fournier

It’s difficult to find conflicting views on hashtags – many are created with the purpose to share an idea with a group of people, usually who have the same idea. You won’t find many Bernie Sanders haters on the #FeeltheBern tag, so in order to find opposing views in a single hashtag, I needed to look for a neutral tag and found #Election2016.

Here, Jorbina Fortson is reporting on how people are lining up to see Donald Trump at a rally. Their stance is pretty neutral and they’re reporting facts, not an opinion on whether they support Trump or not.

Here, Wendy Day is an avid supporter of Ted Cruz and uses the hashtag #cruzcrew to show her support for Cruz along with the #Election2016 hashtag.

Feisty Floridian uses the hashtag #ChooseCruz, which I find interesting because Wendy day uses #CruzCrew, which makes me think there isn’t a unified hashtag for the Cruz campaign, unlike Bernie Sander’s #FeeltheBern tag or Hilary Clinton’s #ImWithHer tag.

Mia Y Anderson uses both the #ShutDownTrump and the #Election2016 tag.

Lobo is also dissatisfied with what they call #Billary. They use a picture to call out #CNN, and use many hashtags to engage with their followers. It’s interesting that they chose to use the hashtag #Bernie instead of #FeeltheBern, which is much more popular.

 

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