---
"title": "Viral Politics"
"description": "Two-in-five Americans have gone online for campaign information."
"date": "2008-08-18"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "Russell Heimlich"
    "job_title": "Former web developer"
    "link": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/short-reads/2008/08/18/viral-politics/"
---

# Viral Politics

The number of Americans who have used the internet for campaign news and information so far this year (40%) already exceeds the number who went online for politics during the entire 2004 campaign (34%). Moreover, the proportion of Americans getting political news and information on any given day in the spring of 2008 has more than doubled, compared with a similar period in 2004. [Read More](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/pubs/869/politics-goes-viral-online)