Internet Election News Audience Seeks Convenience, Familiar Names: Youth Vote Influenced By Online Information. A joint release with the Pew Research Center for People and the Press
12/3/2000 | 
Report | Andrew Kohut Lee Rainie
Nearly one-in-five Americans (18%) say they went online for election news during this year’s campaign, up from 4% who did so in the 1996 campaign. Fully one-third of the online population, which itself has grown dramatically over the past four years, got election news from the Internet. Veteran online users were far more likely to get election news than Internet “newbies.” Political and election information draws more election news consumers than participation in online political activities. Nearly seven-in-ten of those who went online for election news sought out information on the candidates’ positions.
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The Internet and Politics 2007
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July-August 2000 Survey Data
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