Chris Christie and Twitter: Tracking Public Interest in the Scandals

Depending upon what media outlet you follow, there has been ongoing news about NJ Governor Chris Christie and his problems with Fort Lee and Hoboken.  But the political question everyone wants to answer is “how is this affecting him?” If we look on Twitter, the answer seems to be that while there was an initial burst of interest, things have almost quieted down:

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Clearly, in social media it’s a matter of wait-and-see.  And so we wait for the investigations to take their course and to see what comes out of them …