Lefty news service AlterNet has some more bad news for the Democrats. The Republicans are trouncing them on Twitter.

Republicans are dominating in the categories that matter: they have more followers, they’re more active, and they are more in sync with each other. According to TweetCongress, a Web site that tracks congressional activity on Twitter, the most active Twitter account in Congress is the Senate Republicans' Twitter handle, Senate_GOPs, which puts out an average of 7.85 tweets per day. Of the most active Twitter handles for members of Congress, the top 10 are all Republicans. And of the Congressional Twitter handles with the most followers, nine of the top 10 are Republicans -- the only exception is Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri.

On YouTube, eight of the top 10 channels among members of Congress belong to GOP members -- and Republicans surpassed Democrats in total video views in 2009, according to industry analyst TubeMogul.

We're a bit surprised that U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA, 5) isn't on the Top 5 list. As we've noted many times, Rep. McMorris Rodgers is a big advocate of social media.

The "Most Followed" is U.S. Sen. John McCain with 1.7 million followers. And the most tweets per day? The Senate Republicans with 7.98.

And here's a bad bad stat for the Democrats: Speaker of the House U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has  23,291 Facebook fans while  U.S. House Minority Leader U.S. Rep. John Boehner has 115, 454.