The Facebook Difference
November 5, 2008
| 3:12 PM
Not surprisingly, Barack Obama trounced John McCain yesterday among voters ages 18 to 29, 66% to 32%, but it's the increase in the overall youth vote count is perhaps most interesting.
According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, based at Tufts University, an estimated 21.6M to 23.9M young Americans voted in Tuesday's presidential election, an increase of at least 2.2M over 2004, according to national exit polls, demographic data and projections of total numbers of votes cast.
Meanwhile, how many young people have 'friended' Obama on Facebook? Just a week prior to the vote, 2.2M to 2.3M. Today, that number is 2.5M.
(JENNIFER SKALKA)
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