Sam Young

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Independent gubernatorial candidate Sam Young: Campaign PhotoIndependent gubernatorial candidate Sam Young is asking supporters to write him in on the Republican ballot during the primary election on Sept. 9. But he is spreading his word through a newer and rather untraditional method: Facebook.

Young’s campaign has relied heavily on the social networking site as a vehicle to directly market to his supporters.

“I don’t think any of the candidates use the medium well,” Young said to PolitickerVT.com in a phone interview Thursday. “I want to be the first on the scene with this for getting independent candidates and start to break apart the two-party system.”

For the first time this election cycle all of the gubernatorial candidates will have a chance to play ball and leave the politics behind.