Wired to mobilize: The effect of social networking messages on voter turnoutFootnote

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2012 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. Our thanks to Peter Aronow for his statistical advice and to Nicole Ellison, James Fowler, Donald P. Green, Shanto Iyengar and the anonymous reviewers of Social Science Journal for their feedback on earlier drafts. All errors, of course, remain our own.

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