Will Mitt Romney's Facebook Friends Comfort Him In Defeat?
Reports indicate that former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is experiencing "sustained boredom" following his loss Nov. 6. But the real question is: Will the government let him keep his nearly 12 million Facebook friends to comfort him in his loss? The Facebook pages of both Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, have been largely silent since Election Day, except for a sweet photo of Romney hugging his wife, Ann, that was shared in a Thanksgiving Day post.
Reports indicate that former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is experiencing “sustained boredom” following his loss Nov. 6. But the real question is: Will the government let him keep his nearly 12 million Facebook friends to comfort him in his loss? The Facebook pages of both Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, have been largely silent since Election Day, except for a sweet photo of Romney hugging his wife, Ann, that was shared in a Thanksgiving Day post.
The 2012 general election may have been the most “social” in history, but that doesn’t mean that election law has caught up with Facebook, a platform used extensively by campaigns during the last election to not only communicate with voters, but to gather valuable demographic and voter data.
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