Texas 2012 Senate Race Information Sources Round 2: Facebook Boogaloo

(I know, tired meme is tired. But I just like saying “Facebook Boogaloo.”)

It being the second decade of the 21st century and all, it occurs to me that merely providing links to the individual candidates blogs is probably insufficient to keep up with their latest statements. So, in the interest of providing myself a handy cheat sheet informing my readers of the latest developments, here are the major candidates’ Facebook pages (plus that of the undeclared Dewhurst):

  • Ted Cruz
  • David Dewhurst
  • Elizabeth Ames Jones
  • Tom Leppert
  • Michael Williams
  • Roger Williams
  • Oh, and in case you think numbers of Facebook fans are a serious measure of popularity 11 months before an election (I don’t), here are the number of “likes” for each candidate’s respective pages:

  • Ted Cruz: 57,128
  • David Dewhurst: 21,320
  • Elizabeth Ames Jones: 8,018
  • Tom Leppert: 1,268
  • Michael Williams: 7,871
  • Roger Williams: 6,191
  • Now some more race tidbits:

  • According to an interview with him, Lt. Governor David Dewhurst may not run for the Senate in 2012, opting instead to run for Governor in 2014.
  • Interview with Michael Williams at GOP-Is-For-Me. (Psst: Michael: Twitter and Facebook are fine and all, but I shouldn’t have to go past the News/Blog page of your website to find this.)
  • And speaking of Michael Williams, he raised $500,000 in the first quarter of this year, significantly behind what Cruz and Leppert have announced they’ve raised.
  • Some musing from the new Texas Iconclast blog on what those numbers mean.
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