November's midterm elections saw the Republican party reassert its power in Washington, thanks to landslide victories at voting booths throughout the country. And, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center, the GOP did pretty well on Facebook, too. In the months leading up to the November elections, 22-percent of all online adults used social media to follow a particular campaign or the election itself, including two-percent who used Twitter to keep up with the latest news. According to Pew's report, 11-percent of Internet-using adults used social networking sites to find out who their friends were voting for, while seven-percent either 'friended' a political candidate on Facebook or followed one on Twitter.
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