Personal Democracy has a great blog entry regarding a recent study on the use of Facebook by candidates for political office.
Here are some key stats Personal Democracy highlighted:
(1) "36 or 25% of candidates for U.S. Senate have posted their own profiles: 17 Democrats, 11 Republicans, 8 minor party candidates and independents"
(2) "139 or 12% of candidates for U.S. House of Representative have posted their own profiles: 74 Democrats, 54 Republicans, 11 minor party candidates and independents"
(3) "52 or 43% of candidates for state Governor have posted their own profiles: 32 Democrats, 14 Republicans, 6 minor party candidates and independents"
For some reason it seems right and appropriate that guernatorial candidates would use it more than House or Senate candidates.
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