The race between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Charlie Baker appears all but tied going into the final two weeks of the 2014 gubernatorial campaign.Of course, the source for nearly all these measures of public opinion comes from polls released by WBUR and other Massachusetts media outlets, which for years and years have sampled “likely voters” that are demographically and statistically representative of the larger population.
More tweets equates to more votes. And in this regard, applied to the Massachusetts governor’s race, in just the last week Coakley has a decidedly clear advantage in the real-time poll of public opinion that is Twitter. As of midnight Wednesday — and coming off Tuesday night’s televised debate — Baker had been mentioned on Twitter 6,727 times since 7 a.m. on Oct. 14. By comparison, Coakley was mentioned 9,924 times. WBUR