There is no quicker way these days to overwhelm anyone who could have voted for Reagan than getting them to dive into social media, which is shorthand for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and all of the other ilk, and start swimming.
However, that's not a good enough excuse to avoid it altogether anymore. Facebook now has more users than the population of Brazil, and Twitter, which just turned five years old, is said to be closing in on 200 million Tweeters.
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