According to the degree of improvement of Social Media Influence (SMI), the winner of the June 27th Democratic Debate was Kamala Harris, followed by Pete Buttigieg and Andrew Yang. In order to get some perspective, we have compared the ranking of the performance of candidates at the debate from first to tenth by SMI, on-line […]
Who Won the First Democratic Debate (Night 1)?
According to the degree of improvement of Social Media Influence (SMI), the winner of the June 26th Democratic Debate was Julian Castro, followed by Tulsi Gabbard. In order to get some perspective, we have compared the ranking of the performance of candidates at the debate from first to tenth by SMI, on-line surveys, and search. […]
Michelle Obama as Reluctant Savior
The following is an excerpt from a ZettaCap report published in February 2019. ====================================================== Let’s review some of the points that suggest Michelle Obama is seriously considering a run: Autobiography – published bestselling autobiography, basic starting point for presidential hopefuls, Publishing Date – publication timing is uncannily similar to that of Barack’s book when using respective election-days […]
2020 Democrats: Low Probability Candidates and a Reluctant Savior
** The below post is an excerpt from a previously published January 2019 report. ———————————————————————————————– The general assumption seems to be that Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama and Oprah will not run. According to www.predictit.org, the betting or prediction market site, there is an 11% chance Hillary will run, 8% chance for Michelle, and a 7% […]
Overview 2020 Democratic Race using SMI_January 2019
** The commentary below is taken from a previously published January 2019 ZettaCap report. ————————————————————————————————————— Social media based forecasting techniques are very similar to traditional polls and surveys in many ways, except that they leverage much larger sample sizes in real time and with more limited data distortion. Using social media and alternative on-line datasets […]
SMI of 2020 Democrats / ST Observations
** The below commentary was taken from a January 2019 ZettaCap report —————————————————————————————- There is no obvious SMI standout at present among Democrats Democrats have yet to produce an eligible candidate with the standout type SMI that we would expect in order to identify a winner this early in the process. This could change but […]