How Does Social Media Affect Elections

This years election may be one of the most important in America's electoral history. Candidates spend up to ten percent of their campaign money on social media which will be reaching out to the seventy-eight percent of Americans that use social media. Social media is the sharing of ideas between people on different websites and platforms. This is one of the top ways for candidates to influence people to vote for them by spreading the ideas of their campaign. Although candidates try to spread their ideals on social media, they are not the only ones that have access to it. Their are many sites that have misleading information about candidates that cause false propaganda that can and, most likely will affect peoples votes. While their are many pros for using social media for the elections their are more cons to be found, because of the people trying to spread propaganda and their own biased views. Social media's biased view's have a major affect on the elections and, usually end up changing history for ever. The biased shown on social

When it comes to elections or voting for anything in life there will always been one side that ends up not being satisfied. A professor at Zen College states that "Many Americans don't vote because they think their vote doesn't count."(Rogers,2015,pg1). This is highly untrue because the best example would be Trumans surprising win in the election of 1948 by only 4% percent more. Another example would be Kenndeys presidential win by only 112,827 more votes against former President Nixon. The estimated average of people who did not vote could have turn these presidential wins around by a long shot due to the claims of people in there political party at those times. Every vote counts and if it is your choice not to vote then your personal political opinion would not be