Dateless & desperate...Sanders supporters banned from Tinder

[Historic NY]

Sanders supporters banned from Tinder after campaigning on dating app

Stumping for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Tinder is getting some women banned from the online dating app after sending campaign messages to prospective matches.

Two women - one from Iowa and the other from New Jersey - confirmed to Reuters on Friday that they received notices from Tinder in the previous 24 hours that their accounts were locked because they had been reported too many times for peppering men on the site with messages promoting Sanders' candidacy.

Robyn Gedrich, 23, said she sent messages to 60 people a day for the past two weeks trying to convince them to support the U.S. senator from Vermont in his race for the Democratic nomination against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

"Do you feel the bern?" her message to other Tinder users read, parroting a Sanders campaign slogan. "Please text WORK to 82623 for me. Thanks."


Dateless & now desperate..........

[beam me up scottie]

1. Welcome to today's manufactured scandal: TINDERGATE!!!

This is what supporters do on DU when they can't discuss issues.

[TCJ70]

2. Gotta make sure you don't get...

...a Republican...am I right?

[valerief]

3. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1148980

[leveymg]

4. Shows initiative and commitment to their cause. Don't laugh.

Worry.

[GreatGazoo]

5. You should include a link when quoting petty corporate media hit pieces

here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-sanders-tinder-idUSMTZSAPEC2533E5RP

[Old Codger]

6. The desperation

That is appearing since the debate and the new pol numbers has become laughable and sad.... I truly feel sorry for her supporters as they watch another failure

[liberal N proud]

7. I can't understand why they were banned

They are such nice people on the internet.

[Cheese Sandwich]

8. Actually that was a volunteer campaigning tactic.

I actually question how they can ban people for expressing their political preferences on a dating site.

Isn't that just part of their profile?

[VulgarPoet]

9. Clever.

Although in this world of scam and malware bots on dating services... Can't really say that was the MOST intelligent idea. Props for creativity, though. Social media's the wave of the future, and those who can't or won't adapt to it will surely find themselves beneath it.

[m-lekktor]

10. speaking of desperate. nt

[enid602]

11. evangelical

Just another sign that they're becoming more and more like evangelical teapartiers.