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The Conventions on Twitter: My Greatest Hits

As regular readers and Twitter followers would know, I live-tweeted throughout both the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention over the past two weeks. Here is a rundown of my 25 most popular such tweets (to view all tweets, go here - https://twitter.com/CraigRozniecki):

1) 3 hours into the DNC & "climate change" has already been mentioned more times than in the entirety of the four days at the RNC
#DemsInPhilly
383 Likes, 246 Retweets

2) DNC: "We should have equal rights! We should respect one another! We should have hope!"

RNC: "We're all gonna die!"
#DemsInPhilly
310 Likes, 225 Retweets

3) Chris Christie is lecturing Hillary Clinton on ethics. That'd be like Donald Trump lecturing Jimmy Carter on fidelity.
#RNCinCLE
253 Likes, 222 Retweets

4) Newt: "Liberals have destroyed the sanctity of marriage. Now let me tell you about Donald and my's 6 wives..."
#RNCinCLE
256 Likes, 185 Retweets

5) Tiffany Trump: "My dad is a natural-born encourager. Just ask John McCain, that disabled reporter, Mexicans, Muslims, etc."
#RNCinCLE
264 Likes, 170 Retweets

6) Ivanka: "My dad is colorblind & gender neutral even though he wants to punish women for abortions & thinks Mexicans are rapists."
#RNCinCLE
214 Likes, 164 Retweets

7) Ivanka: "My father taught us there's nothing you can't accomplish, so long as you have a really really rich father."
#RNCinCLE
221 Likes, 135 Retweets

8) DNC: "We want to provide hope, inspiration, make you feel love."

RNC: "We want to provide massive panic attacks 24/7."
#DemsInPhilly
226 Likes, 122 Retweets

9) Clinton: "I'm gonna give you a detailed story about how Hillary/I met & how much she's accomplished."
Trump: "My wife's hot."
#DemsInPhilly
219 Likes, 112 Retweets

10) Eric Trump: "I want to thank my rich dad for his rich dad & giving me a better chance to be rich. We can all have rich daddies!"
#RNCinCLE
191 Likes, 121 Retweets

11) DNC: "We made history nominating the 1st woman!"

RNC: "We made history nom. the 1st Oompa Loompa!"
#DemsInPhilly
199 Likes, 106 Retweets

12) DNC: "What the world needs now is love, sweet love."

RNC: "It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!"
#DemsInPhilly
172 Likes, 100 Retweets

13) GOP: "America deserves better!"
...and you give us Trump? Excuse me for a moment...
#RNCinCLE
174 Likes, 84 Retweets

14) Trump: "Siri, what are these things Bill Clinton is talking about? Please give me the 3rd-grade version of it. Thanks."
#DemsInPhilly
174 Likes, 75 Retweets

15) Bloomberg: "Let's elect a sane person as president!"

Trump: "Sane rhymes with brain and I have the bigliest brain like ever!"
#DemsInPhilly
173 Likes, 73 Retweets

16) Kaine: "I'm gonna speak Spanish now."

Trump: "I can speak Spanish. My hands are very very biggo."
#DemsInPhilly
165 Likes, 77 Retweets

17) Stuart Smalley: "Trump isn't good enough; he's not smart enough; and doggone it, people don't like him."
#DNCinPHL
144 Likes, 91 Retweets

18) Melania Trump: "Donald has been a great father to his three sons & two daughters, including the one he wants to bang."
#RNCinCLE
158 Likes, 72 Retweets

18) Voldemort has just appeared on the stage... (featuring a picture of Rick Scott)
#RNCinCLE
160 Likes, 70 Retweets

20) As Democrats, we may have our disagreements, but we're still a family and need to come together to help improve this country.
#DemsInPhilly
142 Likes, 81 Retweets

21) Giuliani: "Benghazi is all Hillary's fault! The 13 embassy attacks under Bush's watch were not his fault, because consistency!"
#RNCinCLE
131 Likes, 89 Retweets

22) BREAKING NEWS: "Elizabeth Warren busts out the Science Matters movement and the GOP freaks the hell out"
#DemsInPhilly
155 Likes, 64 Retweets

23) DNC nomination song: "Happy"

RNC nomination song: "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
#DemsInPhilly
150 Likes, 77 Retweets

24) RNC: "Where are your flags?"
DNC: "Where are your ideas to help troops when they return home?"
#DemsInPhilly
137 Likes, 84 Retweets

25) DNC nominee narration: God, I mean, Morgan Freeman
RNC nominee narration: A pissed off Sam Kinison
#DemsInPhilly
157 Likes, 61 Retweets

RNC (219 tweets): 10,597 Likes, 5,411 Retweets (Averages of 48.4 Likes, 24.7 Retweets)

DNC (115 tweets): 9,000 Likes, 4,267 Retweets (Averages of 78.2 Likes, 37.1 Retweets)

Overall (334 tweets): 19,597 Likes, 9,678 Retweets (Averages of 58.7 Likes, 29.0 Retweets)

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