I recently saw this article and found it so intriguing that what we thought would exponentially help the candidates (Social media through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) would backfire on Romney in such a tight race: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/10/mitt-romney-project-orca-broken-app-cost-thousands-votes_n_2109986.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003.
There were also videos of voters choosing one candidate and the machine would pick another candidate. What do you guys think of technology? Do you think its benefits outweigh its cons? Also note that despite the small cons, they played a HUGE role in this election in the very last moment.
I read the article and dont really understand what the app did exactly. I do however agree with the fact that technology now plays a HUGE role in politics and will continue to increase. I believe that technology is definitely a positive despite the fact that difficulties do occur frequently. Technology, and the internet specifically, allows for people to draw information from millions of different sources, decide for themselves what is reliable and whats not, and make educated decisions as to what the truth really is. Where maybe ten or twenty years ago, everyone received all of their information from news stations on tv. There were only a few. So now everyone is receiving the exact same information from admittedly biased stations and accepting what they see and hear as fact. Now people have the ability to absorb information from so many different places and take educated stances on political points. To me, this is a huge positive to technology. We are becoming more free thinkers.
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