our guest is fabio rojas from indiana university. pieces titled "as tweets go -- so go the votes. how social media can help predict an election." eulas on xm channel 119. ortion from his "washington post" essay host: let me put one case in point. a lot of attention on anthony weiner, who is running for mayor of new york, much of it negative, but he is getting a lot of twitter traffic. that is right. when you think about some like anthony weiner, it always reminds you that these academic studies that we can duck or about averages and trends -- conduct are about averages or trends. races in over 400 2012, and we find the same patterns. other researchers have found a similar relationship between tweets and votes in other countries such as canada, germany. we're talking about aggregate averages. then you might ask -- why would i be wrong in some cases you go why would be put or shared not be accurate? twitter presents a very good case for the model simply does not hold and we have to make an exception. when i think of cases like the new