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How Does Social Media Affect The 2008 Election

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The political use of social media became prevalent during the 2008 election cycle. Social media changed the way politicians organized supporters, advertised to voters, defended against attacks and communicated with constituents. In 2008 fifty-five percent of the entire adult population went online to gather information or partake in election related activities. Before social media political campaigns were ran through grassroots efforts, private-party ran engagements, and paid TV ads. Voters received their information mostly through newspaper, radio outlets, magazines, and tv news programs such as CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and CSPAN. Social media platforms combines the information from all these outlets. Social media has changed every aspect of political
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