There's now a way to search all the pictures 2016 candidates have posted of their dogs


Fusion's Political Image Machine project launched today, and catalogues all 70,000 pictures posted by 2016 presidential candidates to their social media feeds. For reference and ease of use, the project has lots of tags such as "gun," "cross," and "accident" (with a concerning 495 photos filed to it). However, some of the tags veer into the more unusual corners of the campaign: "zombie," "bikini" (dominated by Chris Christie), and "marmalade," for example.
But only one tag is truly essential: "dog."
It turns out candidates post a lot of pictures of dogs — 154 photos, to be exact, although some of those are actually mislabeled pictures of turtles or cows.
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Ben Carson posts the most pictures of dogs, followed by Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum. Do with that information what you will.
You can see all of the dog photos on Fusion.
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