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Agschmid

(28,749 posts)
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 03:08 PM Feb 2016

Sanders supporters banned from Tinder after campaigning on dating app.

"Dating App"...

Funny story, nothing wrong with it just funny.

(Reuters) - 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."


http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSMTZSAPEC2533E5RP
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Sanders supporters banned from Tinder after campaigning on dating app. (Original Post) Agschmid Feb 2016 OP
TINDERGATE!!! beam me up scottie Feb 2016 #1
That seems like a stretch... Agschmid Feb 2016 #3
No silly. TinderGHAZI! nt cherokeeprogressive Feb 2016 #5
Bernie's doomed now! Those darned kids! beam me up scottie Feb 2016 #7
I guess that's one way to get out the vote. leftofcool Feb 2016 #2
Asking someone if dudes "feel the bern" ...on a dating site? SunSeeker Feb 2016 #4
They have pills that will make that bern go away. nt cherokeeprogressive Feb 2016 #6
I thought it was funny also! lol nt m-lekktor Feb 2016 #8
If they went on the gay one, GRINDR, they would get run off by Hillary supporters!! m-lekktor Feb 2016 #9
No I can confirm there is some #feelthebern on Grindr too. Agschmid Feb 2016 #10
On facebook she is popular with many of my gay friends m-lekktor Feb 2016 #11
It ain't pretty on there! Agschmid Feb 2016 #12

m-lekktor

(3,675 posts)
9. If they went on the gay one, GRINDR, they would get run off by Hillary supporters!!
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 03:48 PM
Feb 2016

Teh gays love Hillary!

m-lekktor

(3,675 posts)
11. On facebook she is popular with many of my gay friends
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 04:08 PM
Feb 2016

more so than the straight ones! I am not on Grindr, I would have been 10 years ago if it were around though!

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