June 19, 2006
Maryland Candidates Pop Up on Facebook
Move over, MySpace: Facebook is now joining the campaign fray, with all three of the Democratic candidates for Maryland's governorship creating profiles on the student-oriented site.
In preparation for the state's upcoming Democratic primary, all three candidates have created profiles on Facebook in hopes of tapping into the often overlooked sector of college-aged voters. The Washington Post reported today that Douglas M. Duncan, Martin O'Malley, and Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. can all be found on the site. Although users are required to have a college-affiliated email address in order to register for Facebook, all three candidates are reported to have used those of their college-aged campaign workers.
The article quotes PoliticsOnline's own Phil Noble, who says, "In 1968, Bobby Kennedy showed up and hung around the student center, and Gene McCarthy did the same. Facebook is the student center of college students these days."
Posted by Buzz Webster at June 19, 2006 02:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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