House Dems Battle for Social Media Supremacy

For the third year in a row, House Democrats held a competition to pull themselves into the social media age. For three weeks, Democratic representatives tried to pile up as many new followers as possible across various social media platforms.

Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado took home MVP, compiling 31,578 new Facebook fans, Twitter followers and YouTube subscribers combined. House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) organized the battle for social media supremacy, which also included head-to-head competitions between Democrats in each house committee and caucus. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee took its category, while the Congressional Black Caucus outpaced its competition. All together, the entire Democratic field gained over 139,000 new followers.