Future politicians will have to face the ghosts of their Facebook pasts

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A generation from now, America will be electing its first president from the Facebook and MySpace age ? and, oh, what fun that’ll be. Didn’t inhale? Well, Bill Clinton’s Facebook page may have told a different tale, as it will for the nation’s youngest politicians. Wait, it already has. Guest: Eric Kuhn, 21, new media consultant and a senior at Hamilton College, majoring in Government

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