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Today there were two news about Sarah Palin. First, she endorsed Donald Trump for his Republican presidential bid. Second, her son Track Palin (yes, that's his name...really) was arrested for domestic violence. So I decided to use this opportunity to see which news is getting more traction on Twitter.

To my surprise, Twitter doesn't care much about the son's arrest!It was Trump everywhere. However, there were a few tweets mentioning "son", "domestic", "violence", etc. The sentiment overall was highly neutral.



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