In Fight for Student Vote, Social Media Gives GOP a Hopeful Sign – Kansas City infoZine

Which political party’s college outreach group is reaching more students on social media?

If you answered the Republicans, you are – surprisingly – right.

On Facebook, the College Democrats of America have just 17,400 “likes,” compared to the College Republican National Committee’s 124,700. That’s seven times more.

And on Twitter, the Democrats’ count of 33,600 followers is behind the Republicans’ 56,700.

Even more shocking: While the College Republicans are consistently churning out videos with several thousand views on YouTube, all but one video on the College Democrats’ YouTube account is set to “private.”

Of course, the youth vote has sided with Democrats for years. The last time the majority of 18- to 29-year-old voters favored a Republican in a presidential election was 26 years ago when George H.W. Bush defeated Michael Dukakis. And a poll of more than 1,000 likely millennial voters released last week by Fusion shows Democrats up 15 points over Republicans in the midterm election.

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