With Twitter and TV, who needs the press? | The Connecticut Mirror

An essential part of [Linda] McMahon’s [Connecticut Senate] campaign is her postings to her 55,349 fans on Facebook and, as of Sunday, her 35,079 followers on Twitter. (Murphy, an early congressional adopter of Twitter, has 5,817 followers.)

Her Twitter feed offers chatty postcard accounts of her interactions with voters, a running account of her direct voter contact at high school football games, parades and festivals, even if no reporters are there to bear witness.

“Chatted with voters and their families at the Portland Agricultural Fair!”

“Enjoying the Glastonbury Apple Fest. Great music and good family fun!”

McMahon said she does not lack for voter contact.

“I have been in more than 150-some living rooms. I have toured businesses. I have been incredibly out with the people of Connecticut,” McMahon told reporters last week after her last debate, rejecting any suggestion she is inaccessible. She smiled and added, “Just look at my Facebook page.”

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