The #Walkaway hashtag, hypothetically used by former Democrats who have recently switched parties, has been around for a few months. Its mirror image, #GOPVotingBlue (indicating a Republican voting Democrat in the midterms) has recently surfaced. Let's compare.
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We downloaded all tweets containing #GOPVotingBlue, resulting in 122428 tweets from 40137 accounts over the last two days. We then downloaded the most recent 122428 tweets containing #Walkaway (45855 accounts) for comparison. 
We compared the accounts involved by four criteria that are more common among sockpuppet accounts (default picture, low tweet count, low follower count, recent creation date). #WalkAway set has a higher percentage of accounts flagged for each trait other than low follower count.
What media sources are linked by accounts using each hashtag? #GOPVotingBlue accounts generally link MSM, with a few unabashedly left-wing sources such as HuffPo. Fox is the only mainstream source prominent among #WalkAway accounts; the others are far-right/conspiracy sites.
Let's compare the hashtag use of the two sets. The #WalkAway accounts use hashtags more frequently than the #GOPVotingBlue accounts - 33 hashtags per 100 tweets as opposed to 21. There's something interesting lurking in the sets of hashtags used too. . .
Most common hashtags among accounts with #GOPVotingBlue and #WalkAway tweets. #QAnon and #WWG1WGA show up prominently in the #Walkaway set. We'll point out that the recent #WalkAway march featured one of the early #QAnon pushers (@tracybeanz) as a "citizen journalist" speaker.
Finally, here are the first 20 accounts with #GOPVotingBlue and on-topic #Walkaway tweets. Interestingly, #WalkAway founder @usminority is the second account to use #Walkaway in the "walk away from liberalism" sense; first is six days prior but received little attention.
