Kyle Leighton is the poll editor at Talking Points Memo. After graduating from Beloit College, he worked for candidates and elected officials in Wisconsin and his home state of Maine. In 2010 he received an M.A. in magazine journalism from New York University, where he interned at TPM and the website of The New Yorker.
David Taintor is Talking Points Memo’s front page editor. He contributes to TPMLiveWire and other areas of the site. David is from Chanhassen, Minnesota, where, yes, it gets very cold.
Taintor, Kyle Leighton and David. "Hashtags are the new lawn signs: Why Twitter won’t predict political success in the 2012 cycle." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 23 Mar. 2012. Web. 15 Jan. 2025.
APA
Taintor, K. (2012, Mar. 23). Hashtags are the new lawn signs: Why Twitter won’t predict political success in the 2012 cycle. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved January 15, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2012/03/hashtags-are-the-new-lawn-signs-why-twitter-wont-predict-political-success-in-the-2012-cycle/
Chicago
Taintor, Kyle Leighton and David. "Hashtags are the new lawn signs: Why Twitter won’t predict political success in the 2012 cycle." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 23, 2012. Accessed January 15, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/2012/03/hashtags-are-the-new-lawn-signs-why-twitter-wont-predict-political-success-in-the-2012-cycle/.
Wikipedia
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