http://www.cio.com/article/2976083/social-networking/why-social-media-could-swing-the-2016-presidential-election.html Social media is playing an even larger role every new election. Hillary Clinton has been by far the most active candidate so far in social media organizations and it has reflected in her high polling numbers. Are there candidates in the race capable of taking advantage of social media to try to get in touch with voters? Or because most of them have already gotten their campaigns underway is it too late to go back and pull in younger voters through social media? I feel that if any candidate has the chance to put social media resources into full effect is Bernie Sanders, with some of his highest support coming from younger people.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/hillary-clinton-is-in-a-self-reinforcing-funk/ I'm starting to question if Hillary's campaign will survive the primaries. She continues to look more and more like the Washington Establishment/Career Politician that America has found unpopular since Nixon. But if Clinton does go down does that mean a Sanders nomination is upcoming from the Democrats? and if so could he even come close to attracting any of the more moderate Democratic party members or any moderates? This also makes me wonder if the Democratic Party will find Joe Biden to be the safer candidate in the general election.

So I'm not sure if you'll be able to open the link, it's to Galileo. But I was doing some research for my senior seminar class and I cam across an article that related to our class on "The News Media as Political Institutions" and thought it would make a good blog post. I'd link the pdf but i'm not really sure how.