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By The Numbers: 'Friends' ditch Mitt Romney

November 11, 2012 | 4:21 pm | Modified: November 11, 2012 at 4:25 pm
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Photo - Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney arrives to his election night rally, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in Boston. President Obama defeated Republican challenger former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney arrives to his election night rally, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in Boston. President Obama defeated Republican challenger former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

847: Number of friends, per hour, that Mitt Romney has been losing on Facebook, according to an article published this weekend on Mashable.com. Romney began bleeding friends Tuesday after losing the presidential election to President Obama. As of Sunday afternoon, Obama's page had 33,224,765 likes on Facebook, a boost, according to our math, of 910,800 since Election Night.

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