Mitt Romney voters like ‘American Sniper’
Bradley Cooper stars as Chris Kyle in “American Sniper.†(Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)
If Facebook chatter guided the Oscars, Mitt Romney supporters are totally behind American Sniper SelmaÂ
That’s one of the takeaways from Facebook data mapped by The Wall Street Journal, which looked at the 100 counties where a Best Picture nominee dominated chatter on the social networking site and compared it to how those counties voted in the last presidential election. The Academy Awards will be announced Sunday night.
Dante Chinni, director of the American Communities Project at American University, wrote in a column for the Journal
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Meanwhile, the other seven Best Picture nominees were talked about the most in counties that backed Obama. SelmaBirdmanThe Imitation GameJournal
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Chinni notes that American Sniper
Is it that Democratic-leaning communities dislike war, or that they more favor small artsy films? Maybe, but a big part of the split is about distribution and access.