{"id":26202,"date":"2007-01-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2007\/01\/17\/election-2006-online\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:55:00","slug":"election-2006-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2007\/01\/17\/election-2006-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2006 Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Lee Rainie, Director and John Horrigan, Associate Director for Research<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of Americans who got most of their information about the 2006 campaign on the internet doubled from the most recent mid-term election in 2002 and rivaled the number from the 2004 presidential election year.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In all, 15% of all American adults say the internet was their primary source for campaign news during the election, up from 7% in the mid-term election of 2002 and close to the 18% of Americans who said they relied on the internet during the presidential campaign cycle in 2004.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/old-assets\/reports\/80-1.gif\" alt=\"Table\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While television and newspapers still dominate political communication for the majority of Americans, there is now a group of citizens who use the internet more than newspapers. They are relatively young &#8212; under 36 years old &#8212; and they have broadband connections at home. Some 35% of those in that cohort say the internet was their main source of political news during the 2006 campaign, compared with 18% who cite newspapers. For older broadband users, the internet still seems to be a supplemental source of political information and activity.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new online political elite is also emerging as 23% of campaign internet users became online political activists.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first time in our politics and the internet surveys we asked respondents whether they had created and shared political content and found that among campaign internet users:<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&lt;ul &gt;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>8% posted their own political commentary to a newsgroup, website or blog.<\/li>\n<li>13% forwarded or posted someone else&#8217;s political commentary.<\/li>\n<li>1% created political audio or video recordings.<\/li>\n<li>8% forwarded or posted someone else&#8217;s political audio or video recordings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In all, 23% of campaign internet users (or 11% of internet users and 7% of the entire U.S. population) had done at least one of those things. 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