Despite its abysmal track record of launching hashtags on Twitter the Obama campaign decided to try again tonight. Thus #WhatsRomneyHiding was born.
https://twitter.com/#!/BarackObama/status/188046540475088897
Of course the hashtag, which became a worldwide trending topic, hasn’t been used as Obama’s campaign intended. Instead of demands to see Mitt Romney’s tax returns the hashtag is filled with random jokes and tweets mocking Obama. Here are the best #WhatsRomneyHiding tweets.
https://twitter.com/#!/NeoconBlonde/status/188054467416043520
https://twitter.com/#!/guypbenson/status/188048610187935744
https://twitter.com/#!/JonahNRO/status/188052524023025665
https://twitter.com/#!/hoosierclinger/status/188055696753954816
https://twitter.com/#!/SamValley/status/188055809169702912
https://twitter.com/#!/mantone1/status/188056275731488768
https://twitter.com/#!/Professor_Why/status/188056245956116481
https://twitter.com/#!/I_Hate_Hippies/status/188055884352585729
https://twitter.com/#!/EMcLean1982/status/188055873644544000
https://twitter.com/#!/Jbroks86/status/188055857752326144
https://twitter.com/#!/JLThorpe/status/188058590072938496
https://twitter.com/#!/chefbrink/status/188058537631551488
https://twitter.com/#!/jimreittinger/status/188058507352883201
https://twitter.com/#!/MeganSmiles/status/188058448292876288
https://twitter.com/#!/theaugur/status/188058425731719169
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https://twitter.com/#!/Herfarm/status/188057303843487745
https://twitter.com/#!/baseballcrank/status/188058428508348416
https://twitter.com/#!/DrewMTips/status/188059076448616448
https://twitter.com/#!/kesgardner/status/188058828393283584
https://twitter.com/#!/MrPartisan/status/188060177109483520
https://twitter.com/#!/OklahomaAdam/status/188059964613476353
https://twitter.com/#!/keder/status/188049889580687360
https://twitter.com/#!/SamAdamsTPP/status/188060289772699648
https://twitter.com/#!/TBradleyNC/status/188060256000151554
The fact that the Obama new media campaign team keeps launching hashtags when they’re inevitably going to be taken over and used to mock their candidate is confounding. Is this the worst new media team in politics? What other explanation is there?
UPDATE: Not satisfied with hijacking #WhatsRomneyHiding it seems that conservatives have created the worldwide trending topic #WhatsObamaHiding to further criticize the President.
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