Instructions
For the initial post, respond to one of the following options, and label the beginning of your post indicating either Option 1 or Option 2:
- Option 1: List the ways in which contemporary presidential campaigns have used social media as a campaign tool. Do you consider social media as a successful tool? Explain your answer. Do you see social media as an unsuccessful tool? Explain your answer and provide examples.
- Option 2: There are numerous discussions involving the Electoral College. There are some people that want to abolish the electoral college while others want to keep it. What do you think? Keep the electoral college or abolish it? Explain the reasons for your choice.
Be sure to make connections between your ideas and conclusions and the research, concepts, terms, and theory we are discussing this week.
Answer
Option 1 Social media has become a significant campaign tool for presidential candidates. To begin with, these candidates use social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram to communicate their policies, share their values, and give ideas about the future they anticipate to the voters through videos, tweets, and posts (Maurer & Diehl, 2020). They use these platforms to connect with the voters through …. To access full answer, click on the purchase button below.