it s difficult. talking about going after hundreds of people, not the same with broadcasting their own message on their own facebook page and going after millions of people. again, trying too find people with a similar like-minded approach in their message. rick perry has been known to block people he does not want access to his twitter account? yeah. one could argue rick perry needs to catch up a little bit to some of the other republican candidates. look, for example, on facebook. rick perry s got 164,000 likes on his profile. mitt romney is up over a million and michele bachmann closing in on half a million. you could argue rick perry perhaps needs to step up his game, if that s who he wants to go after. no everybody thinks you re right. doesn t necessarily make sense if you re trying to get the numbers up high. the argument. you have to wonder, is it really a social experience, first of all? you never know if it s the politician who s tweeting or who s posting messages on
young egyptian who was killed in alexandria by the police. they have been canvassing the country, sending smss, posting messages on facebook and twitter and really through word of mouth it s spread around. so it wasn t anything well aware that this was in the works. but i don t think they realized that there would be quite this many people. who sboresponded. all right. ben who is in the middle of the demonstrations, which is the largest that he s ever seen since he s been covering there. thank you very much. we ll continue to stay in touch. in the meantime, we ll take a break and be back with more after this. [ female announcer ] choose vegas excitement one minute.
public more seriously and professionally than posting messages on twitter and facebook. this is a pattern in her endorsements, backing people like nikki haley and carly fiorina in california. thank you so much. joining us here, chuck todd, co-host of the daily rundown. and expert on all things lebron james and john harwood. thanks both. first you, chuck. let s talk about what steele is up to today. and sarah palin, sarah palin. it s interesting. the michael steele thing and what alex brought up about the fact that none of the major candidates running in colorado, colorado may be one of the biggest battlegrounds for 2010, that might tell us something if the republicans can get their groove back here in colorado. none of them would show up with him. this isn t as if they added this late to the schedule. the whole colorado plan and schedule for michael steele was supposed to come here, do a