DECATUR -
Online campaigning is getting more and more popular. National and local candidates continue to look to the Internet for support to get elected and make a personal connection with voters.
Politicians are taking a new approach to campaigning these days. You won't see as many signs on the roads these days, you'll see them on the web.
Facebook is a place to vent your problems in your status updates, upload pictures for your friends to see and to elect politicians, yep that's right. That's another avenue where politicians are running their campaigns these days.
From the White House to your congressmen, to senators, mayors, representatives and sheriff's. Everyone is jumping in on the race.
Congressman Parker Griffith gave us a quote on how Facebook helped his campaign:
"Facebook is another media to allow people of the 5th district to reach me, share their opinion, ask me questions or find out what is going on both at home and in our nation's capitol," said Congressman Parker Griffith.
State Senator Arthur Orr just created a Facebook account two months ago. He told us, "It's been helpful for others candidates. It's another way to communicate with constituents."
Just about every candidate in a race right now has an active page.
Sheriff Bartlett says he uses his page to keep people informed of what's going on in his office.
"If you're on our Facebook page you also get everything that's going on with the sheriff's office instantly. We try to keep the public just as informed on Facebook that we do in the news media," said Sheriff Bartlett.
Now the question is do the number of supporters correlate with how many votes they're going to get? Not necessarily.
Another plus for politicians, Facebook campaigning is free for candidates.
Politicians are taking a new approach to campaigning these days. You won't see as many signs on the roads these days, you'll see them on the web.
Facebook is a place to vent your problems in your status updates, upload pictures for your friends to see and to elect politicians, yep that's right. That's another avenue where politicians are running their campaigns these days.
From the White House to your congressmen, to senators, mayors, representatives and sheriff's. Everyone is jumping in on the race.
Congressman Parker Griffith gave us a quote on how Facebook helped his campaign:
"Facebook is another media to allow people of the 5th district to reach me, share their opinion, ask me questions or find out what is going on both at home and in our nation's capitol," said Congressman Parker Griffith.
State Senator Arthur Orr just created a Facebook account two months ago. He told us, "It's been helpful for others candidates. It's another way to communicate with constituents."
Just about every candidate in a race right now has an active page.
Sheriff Bartlett says he uses his page to keep people informed of what's going on in his office.
"If you're on our Facebook page you also get everything that's going on with the sheriff's office instantly. We try to keep the public just as informed on Facebook that we do in the news media," said Sheriff Bartlett.
Now the question is do the number of supporters correlate with how many votes they're going to get? Not necessarily.
Another plus for politicians, Facebook campaigning is free for candidates.
