Sen Sanders’s campaign dominates online conversation about Sanders

The Democratic debate may not necessarily have been in prime time on Dec 19, but it still generated more than 400,000 mentions online. Unlike most of their GOP counterparts, the official Twitter feeds of the two leading Democratic candidates continue to be major drivers of their own social media conversation. During the Saturday debate, for example, all five of the top Hillary Clinton-related Tweets came from the campaigns. This is particularly true of Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VT), whose campaign delivered all of the most frequently retweeted mentions of the night.