Oprah Winfrey at a campaign event for Stacey Abrams, Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia. The Cook Political Report rates her contest with Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp as a “toss up”

“Candidate Tinder”

How Elections Are Changing Because Of Trump And The Internet

Eric J Scholl
5 min readNov 2, 2018

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Voters are increasingly making choices based on personality of a specific candidate and what they feel they have in common in terms of their beliefs. And they don’t care so much about party and platform at all. So when Texas Democratic nominee for Senate, Beto O’Rourke Tweets: “We’re not running against anyone, any party, or

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Eric J Scholl

Peabody award winning journalist. Streaming media pioneer. Played @ CBGB back in the day. Editor-In-Chief "The Chaos Report" www.thechaosreport.com