2016 Presidential Primary: Who Does Middlesex County "Like" Most?

What if Facebook likes were equivalent to presidential votes? Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog put that idea to the test.

According to the report, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders would beat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by a margin of nearly 3-to-1 across the country and Donald Trump would have more votes than U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio combined, FiveThirtyEight reported.

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Massachusetts followed the trend, with 40 percent giving a virtual thumbs-up to Sanders and 22 percent liking Trump. 13 percent of Massachusetts’ share of likes went to Clinton. Cruz had six percent and Rubio had five percent of the Commonwealth’s likes, according to the report.

As for Middlesex County, the report showed 44 percent of their share of Facebook likes went to Sanders, 19 percent to Trump, 16 percent to Clinton, 5 percent to Rubio and 5 percent to Cruz.

Most counties in the Commonwealth gave the most likes to Sanders, with the exception of Bristol County, which gave 32 percent of its share of likes to Trump and 29 percent to Sanders.

The blog pointed out that readers should keep in mind Facebook likes are not votes. FiveThirtyEight also noted Facebook users are disproportionately young, low-income and female.