Politics & Social Media

Well this is such a fun topic!!!! Politicians by far use social media more than almost anyone to gain influence over possible voters. So when you see the old folks tweeting or posting you can almost guess that its some twenty-two year old intern working for their campaign posting everything for them...so much for being in touch with their audience! But one of my favorite things about voting seasons is that there is always one story that gets leaked about some politician screwing up in some form whether it is drinking too much, sexual allegations or a very poorly thought out tweet some one ends up dropping out pretty early because of a dumb mistake. I don't know about you but it bothers me a lot thinking that the people who run our country who are our appointed leaders cannot handle themselves more maturely than Miley Cyrus can!!! Man we sure know how to pick 'em. One thing I will say however is due to scandals such as Watergate or Bill Clinton's "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" politics becomes a lot more interesting. It is as if they do this stuff on purpose to get people to pay attention to politics. I cannot tell you how many times its gets to November and none of my friends are talking about politics and then all of a sudden there is some breaking story about a politician screw up and then all of a sudden everyone is a critic and has a plan and a backup plan to the problem and every other conflict going on in the government. So who knows maybe it was all a part of the plan to get caught drunk or saying that dumb comment or with that other woman, but I guarantee if you ask any politician they will give you a good ole George W. Bush Jr. chuckle and move on to the next question with some sly counter question.