By Jon Winsor According to Tech President and 140elect.com, Thursday's pro-science tweet by Jon Huntsman was one of the most effective tweets on record by a GOP candidate. The 90 character message was retweeted over 3600 times (50% higher than Sarah Palin's best) and earned him 4,275 followers on a single day. It also earned attention from major newspapers, such as the New York Times. Attention isn't poll numbers (Huntsman isn't polling well) but it's attention. Perhaps sensing that this could be an important theme for him, Huntsman is taking it to the airwaves. Jake Tapper posted some excepts from his interview with Huntsman airing tomorrow on ABC's This Week:
TAPPER: These comments from Governor Perry prompted you to Tweet, quote: "To be clear, I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy." Were you just being cheeky or do you think there's a serious problem ...