transplant99 I think you're argument is based on the notion that Twitter and Facebook are only made up of 18-35 year old demographics, and I'm not sure that is the case.
Someone on the YYCVote stream posted an analysis of the demographics of both sites and found that there are a surprising number of users, the age who will go out and vote. I'm not going to quote numbers because I can't find the web-link, I thought it might have been DJ Kelly, but his blog doesn't seem to have what I'm looking for.
In any case, I think it's important to ask the question of WHY the 18-35 demographic doesn't go out and vote. My opinion is that politics doesn't do anything to engage us. I don't count myself in that group because I've always voted at every opportunity I've had, but this election has been really interesting to me because of the amount of engagement it's created amongst people my age, and even people outside my age group. I've never donated to a political campaign until this one, I know c.t.ner is the same. This is the first time that a candidate has decided to actively try to engage me to garner support, don't underestimate what has been traditional, when there are so many untraditional means to engage voters.
Aha! I found my link, and indeed it was DJ Kelly:
http://djkelly.ca/2010/08/18-to-34-y...gary-election/
Wouldn't you know it.. the highest percentage of FB users is actually OVER 40! Haha, you old balls are learning the internets!