{"id":25240,"date":"2010-12-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2010\/12\/28\/mobile-politics-2010\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:52:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:52:00","slug":"mobile-politics-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2010\/12\/28\/mobile-politics-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Politics 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Aaron Smith, Senior Research Specialist and Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet &amp; American Life Project<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"overview\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than a quarter of American adults (26%) used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 midterm election campaign.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a post-election nationwide survey of adults, the Pew Research Center&#8217;s Internet &amp; American Life Project found that 82% of adults have cell phones. Of those cell owners, 71% use their phone for texting and 39% use the phone for accessing the internet. With that as context, the Pew Internet Project survey found that:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>14% of all American adults used their cell phones to tell others that they had voted.<\/li>\n<li>12% of adults used their cell phones to keep up with news about the election or politics.<\/li>\n<li>10% of adults sent text messages relating to the election to friends, family members and others.<\/li>\n<li>6% of adults used their cells to let others know about conditions at their local voting stations on election day, including insights about delays, long lines, low turnout, or other issues.<\/li>\n<li>4% of adults used their phones to monitor results of the election as they occurred.<\/li>\n<li>3% of adults used their cells to shoot and share photos or videos related to the election.<\/li>\n<li>1% of adults used a cell-phone app that provided updates from a candidate or group about election news.<\/li>\n<li>1% of adults contributed money by text message to a candidate or group connected to the election like a party or interest group.<\/li>\n<li>If a respondent said she or he had done any of those activities in the last campaign season, we counted that person in this 26% cohort. Throughout this report we call this group &#8220;mobile political users&#8221; or the &#8220;mobile political population.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mobile political user group is more male than female, young than old, better off financially than less well-off, and better educated than less well-educated. African-Americans are also more likely than whites or Hispanics to be in this group &#8212; see the table below.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/old-assets\/publications\/1838-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"701\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some 71% of cell owners say they voted in the 2010 election, compared with 64% of the full adult population in this survey who say they voted. (Note: The overall reported turnout was about 40% in the election. It is common for post-election surveys to hear from a greater number of people who say they voted than was actually the case.)<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was no partisan tilt in the makeup of the mobile political user population. They split their votes equally between Democratic and Republican congressional candidates &#8212; 44% to each. About 2% said they voted for other candidates and 10% didn&#8217;t answer the question or said they didn&#8217;t know. Generally, there were few partisan or ideological differences in way this group used their cell phones for politics.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/Reports\/2010\/Mobile-Politics.aspx\">Read the full report at pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a quarter of American adults used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 midterm election 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