#KeepCalmVoteDem Hashtag Trends On Twitter, Gets Hijacked By Republicans

The hashtag #KeepCalmVoteDem was hijacked by Republicans on Twitter from Democrats, who were trying to use the phrase to energize the electorate on social media to vote for Democratic candidates in the 2014 midterm elections. The hashtag was one of the social media site’s trending topics on Thursday morning.
Democratic political strategist and CNN contributor Donna Brazile was among the Democrats who tweeted out the hashtag. Brazile also used hashtags to highlight the Democratic platform this election cycle:
#KeepCalmVoteDem in order to #RaiseTheWage #EqualPayForEqualWork #jobs and #ImmigrationReform. Protect #VotingRights for all citizens! #vote
- Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) October 30, 2014
Liberals on Twitter also tweeted out #KeepCalmVoteDem, a take on the phrase “Keep Calm and Carry On,” the slogan created by the British government to raise morale during World War II.
#KeepCalmVoteDem unless you want to add a couple more wars in far away places just to save oil.
- GeeGee (@GeeGeeAkili) October 30, 2014
There's science, there's math, then there's #GOPLogic. #KeepCalmVoteDem
- mock_you_men_tory (@LiteisoN) October 30, 2014
republican "facts": Impeachment is Obama's idea, they found the WMDs, ISIS is HERE, & Obama is flying in Africans w #Ebola. #KeepCalmVoteDem
- mock_you_men_tory (@LiteisoN) October 30, 2014
But for every Democrat who tweeted out #KeepCalmVoteDem, there were about just as many conservatives who used the phrase to mock Democrats.
#KeepCalmVoteDem If you want Illegal Aliens to get benefits that are meant for our vets, who don't get them!
- Let's Do This (@Patriotic_Me) October 30, 2014
#KeepCalmVoteDem if along with your illegals you want a side order of disease. pic.twitter.com/6IAwmaTNWF
- Franci (@LadySandersfarm) October 30, 2014
If you think a washington lobbyist lawyer is the Best Choice for Ebola Czar... #KeepCalmVoteDem
- Just me (@reluctantzealot) October 30, 2014
If you think GITMO is closed, Al Queda is decimated, and there's no terrorist threat. #KeepCalmVoteDem
- Just me (@reluctantzealot) October 30, 2014
If you like being lied to about what the real unemployment rate is, #KeepCalmVoteDem
- working man (@ScottPetric) October 30, 2014
The hashtag went viral with less than a week before the midterm elections that will decide which party controls Congress. Democrats have a majority in the Senate, but President Barack Obama’s unpopularity is making it likely that the GOP will overtake the chamber and have full control of the legislative branch of government. Republicans have a 93 percent chance as of Thursday to control the Senate, according to the Washington Post’s Election Lab. GOP expectations are more tempered at FiveThirtyEight; the website’s latest projections show Republicans with a 64 percent chance of winning the majority of Senate seats on Tuesday.
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