"…unless we stop them now!"
-Homer J. Simpson
Facebook has recently announced an elections section, which allows you to pledge your support for candidates and issues. This is both interesting for political insight and to show you what's important to college attending youth.
This, fortunately, on many issues, this does not bode well for Republicans, as well as incumbents. For example, a quick back of the envelope calculation on the GOPs hot-button issues reveals the following:
Against Gay Marriage: 374 to 3115
Anti-Immigration: 435 to 198
Hostile to GOP Energy Policy: 1164 to 0 (couldn't find any pro-GOP groups)
Global Warming: Problem or Not: 533 to 256
Iraq, Stay or Go: 888 to 974.
Unfortunately, Facebook doesn't let you see how many "support links" a given candidate has, although I'm certain this data will be available to campaigns, for a fee. Or better yet, some enterprising developer will bash together something using Facebook's API. There are some interesting (non-political) implementations here.
Tags: Facebook
