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#SuperTuesday

When I made a sentiment graph for #GE2015, which stands for General Elections 2015 in Singapore, I was surprised to see much more negative sentiment that I expected. I thought that the election would be very tight and the ruling party PAP will face major challenge from opposition parties. Yet, when the results were announced, PAP won the election with 70% vote share!

The moral of the story is that in Singapore Twitter sentiment about politics is not representative of the voting population. I think that many Americans are hoping the same to be true for the USA. Super Tuesday was two days back on 1st March and the participating states included Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado (with caucuses), Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota (with caucuses), Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia. Additionally, Republican caucuses were held in Alaska, North Dakota, and Wyoming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Tuesday#2016).

Well, what do we have here? Trump is all over the wordcloud again. He really killed it this time because his likely contender for the Presidential race, Hillary Clinton, barely shows up in the tweets. Bernie makes an appearance. Even Chris Christie is mentioned more often than Ted Cruz and potentially Rubio.


 
The sentiment is much more positive than negative so people are not super concerned about Trump winning. This says something.

 
 

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