As social media grows in popularity in the US, the the medium become less of a reporter of political races and more of a predictor of the results? This in-depth infographic from education platform Open Site looks at the evidence…
In Senate races, the candidate with more Facebook friends than his or her opponent has won 81% of the time.
And one email sent to 60 million Facebook users prompted an additional 340,000 people to vote in the 2010 election.
This infographic illustrates just how politics and social media are affecting each other.
Source: http://open-site.org/
