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Political reliance on Internet grows

3/7/2005 | Coverage

Ann McFeatters, The Toledo Blade

'" Without the Internet, says Howard Dean, the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, he would not have that job, and Democrats would not have out- raised Republicans in money last year for the first time.

Without the Internet, says Ken Mehlman, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee and campaign manager for George W. Bush, his job of re-electing the President would have been “inestimably” harder.

Now a new report finds the instincts of both men are correct: The Internet has become an enormous tool in U.S. politics and for the most part has changed politics in a positive way.

A nationwide survey by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Pew Internet & American Life Project and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press said the Internet has become “part deliberative town square, part raucous debating society, part research library, part instant news source, and part political comedy club.”


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