Point of View: Where Romney was right
Molly Flatt1000heads
I personally find this very difficult to admit, but Mitt Romney did at least one thing right over the past few months. The first large-scale piece of experimental research on the political influence of social networks, published in September in the science journal Nature, revealed that Facebook sharing can quadruple the power of a 'get-out-the-vote' message.
Yes, 'social contagion' makes people actually vote. Now, it would have been tempting for politicians to hurl a truckload of messages at these newly sanctioned Facebook gamechangers. Instead, Team Romney decided to...