I don't follow much of politics. I wasn't old enough to vote in the last election so I never bothered to read up on it. Of course back then I wasn't big into Twitter and Facebook. However, the recent growth of social networking sites may change that. In Kathryn Vasel's article "The Election's Real Battleground States: Facebook and Twitter" the internet is said to play a big role in the upcoming election because it is "free" to use and it reaches a large group of people instantly. (I use the term free loosely because Romney purchased a "trending topic" on Twitter so that his messages will be high on news feeds) I would have to agree with this because more people are on the internet than ever. People used to sit and watch elections on television; now people sit on the computer to watch television. Even if you were to miss something billions of people update to inform you through social media sites. The younger generation, the newest voters, are a key group of voters online. Mining the social media sites for young voters is a potential goldmine for candidates in the elections.
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