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Twitter #Hashtags a #DoubleEdgedSword for #Obama, #Romney

Twitter #Hashtags a #DoubleEdgedSword for #Obama, #Romney Campaigns

05/03/2012

PBS News Hour

Twitter #Hashtags a #DoubleEdgedSword for #Obama, #Romney

Clip: 5/3/2012 | 6m 16s

Twitter #Hashtags a #DoubleEdgedSword for #Obama, #Romney Campaigns

As part of an ongoing series on how candidates and surrogates use social media this election season, Ray Suarez and journalists Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz of Daily-Download.com discuss the role of Twitter and hashtags to spread or co-opt campaign messages from President Obama and Mitt Romney.

05/03/2012

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