While Barack Obama and Mitt Romney battled it out for the Presidential Election, every news outlet battled for engagement on Facebook. PostAcumen analyzed which news outlet won, and how they did it.
For this analysis, we selected five major news outlets and monitored their activity on election day (11/6/2012).
The news outlets were:
- CNN
- Fox News
- msnbc
- The New York Times
- USA Today
Going into election day, the pages had a varying amount of fans:

