2006 US election online

Always a pleasure to re-broadcast material from the Pew - 2006 US election online in this case.

Twice as many Americans used the internet as their primary source of news about the 2006 campaign compared with the most recent mid-term election in 2002.
Some 15% of all American adults say the internet was the place where they got most of their campaign news during the election, up from 7% in the mid-term election of 2002.
A post-election survey shows that the 2006 race also produced a notable class of online political activists. Some 23% of those who used the internet for political purposes – the people we call campaign internet users – actually created or forwarded online original political commentary or politically-related videos.

In this case, their Report on 2006 US election online is accompanied by a brief summary and some commentary on the BBC Online, Americans embrace politics online.

Also read a piece in the Guardian, fresh off the press [and off my newsagent] today. Hillary and the Democrats choose web as the new deal, or so it seems.

Both of which seem to argue that effectively the Internet is making big waves in US presidential elections.