"Did Facebook Give Democrats the upper hand?"

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Social media has been a massive boon for Democrats. It's just far too easy to debunk GOP lies (and gross misrepresentations). You just can't get away with blatantly lying in politics anymore.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Based on my experience, those who are in the 18-29 demographic who vote are far more informed politically than many partisans I know. My friends are all very aware of the issues, and made very sane, very rational decisions based on those issues. Like, for instance, the decision not to support a candidate who would be OK with me dying alone in a hospital bed because my partner's right to say goodbye is somehow trumped by a nameless hospital administrator's "right" to discriminate. Or that health care should be something every human being has a right to. Or that raising taxes on millionaires to cut the deficit wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. They get most of their political information from The Daily Show, but all considered, that's a pretty good place to get your political information from when compared to Fox News.

My grandmother, meanwhile, once explained to me that she votes Republican because she's a registered Republican, and thus, it'd be illegal not to. My moderate Republican mother thinks "there are a lot of things that don't add up" about Obama's birth certificate.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

18 year olds are far more enthusiastic by a candidate who appeals to pop-culture and shows up on Entertainment Tonight and People magazine.

WTF?!  What college kid watches ET and reads magazines of any kind let alone People Magazine?!

College kids in 1986.

The demographic of ET and People Magazine has never been "18-year-olds." Not even in 1986. They target housewives.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Based on my experience, those who are in the 18-29 demographic who vote are far more informed politically than many partisans I know. My friends are all very aware of the issues, and made very sane, very rational decisions based on those issues. Like, for instance, the decision not to support a candidate who would be OK with me dying alone in a hospital bed because my partner's right to say goodbye is somehow trumped by a nameless hospital administrator's "right" to discriminate. Or that health care should be something every human being has a right to. Or that raising taxes on millionaires to cut the deficit wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. They get most of their political information from The Daily Show, but all considered, that's a pretty good place to get your political information from when compared to Fox News.

My grandmother, meanwhile, once explained to me that she votes Republican because she's a registered Republican, and thus, it'd be illegal not to. My moderate Republican mother thinks "there are a lot of things that don't add up" about Obama's birth certificate.

Its odd that none of those issues you mentioned had to do with employment or business costs.  I wonder why that is.  Life's pretty swell when mommy and daddy are paying your college tuition, instead of standing in bread lines. 

I'm 30, thank you, not 20. My friends and I moved out of our parents' house long ago.

Coincidentally, a lot of my friends say that Republicans are good on fiscal issues, but their stances on social issues makes them an absolute non-starter. They can't vote for tax cuts in good conscience when their friends are being treated like absolute garbage.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

18 year olds are far more enthusiastic by a candidate who appeals to pop-culture and shows up on Entertainment Tonight and People magazine.

WTF?!  What college kid watches ET and reads magazines of any kind let alone People Magazine?!

You are clearly not female.

Clearly, neither are you.

Then why did Obama spend so much time on ET, Jay Leno, and The View? 
If it didn't make a difference, then there would be no point of him doing the celeb gossip circuit. 
Clearly college women voted for Obama because he's a good looking guy that looks good with his shirt off, and he will pay for contraception and abortions.  I'm sure a lot of college guys liked that he was good looking as well.

You know, it's weird: I didn't see any shirtless photos of Obama this cycle, but I sure did see a bunch of photos from some bizarre Paul Ryan workout shoot.