"Obama's Big Social Media Edge: Will It Affect the Election?"

[applegrove]

Obama's Big Social Media Edge: Will It Affect the Election?

by Tom Watkins at CNN

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/22/obamas-big-social-media-edge-will-it-affect-the-election/

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As of Saturday night, the incumbent had garnered 28.8 million Facebook "likes" and more than 20 million Twitter followers, compared with 7.1 million "likes" and 1.16 million followers for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

"They got left in the dust," Trippi said of the Republican campaign.

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Two or three states "could look a lot like Florida did in the year 2000," he said, referring to the tight vote that wound up being put in the Republican column, resulting in George W. Bush's victory.

In any future such cases, Obama's social media mobilization efforts could prove decisive, Trippi said.

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[outsideworld]

1. it will help with the younger

generation that are more social media inclined