They may have grown up in the time before the internet, but older Republicans aren’t letting the tech divide get in their way.
In fact, the whole party is embracing YouTube, especially since the site launched its “Town Hall” page last month, which pits Republicans and Democrats against one another, debate-style, on a single page where users can select topics of discussion ranging from immigration to the war in Afghanistan. Users are allowed to vote the numerous videos up or down, but they can also choose user-submitted questions from which lawmakers base their video answers.
So far, more than 115,000 votes have been cast on the 25 videos submitted for the first round of questions, and if the site’s “Leaderboard” is any indication, Republicans are winning the video debate, scoring the most votes for three of the top four June videos.
