Survey Says - 46% Of Americans Use Internet For Politics

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"Some 47 percent of online adults have watched at least one type of online political video (out of a list of five possible types of videos,)" write the Pew researchers. That amounts to 35 percent of all adults.

Overall, the surveyors found that just under a third of all internet users have participated in the online political process through a variety of means: They either forwarded or wrote their own political commentary, signed online petitions, signed up with the campaigns themselves to receive information, forwarded online audio or video segments, or signed up to volunteer for events related to campaigns.

Fewer than one percent of those surveyed had created their own political video or audio recordings, the survey found.

In many ways, the survey's numbers simply confirm anecdotal evidence of the nature of the online campaign so far.

For example, the authors of the survey write: "Simply put, Democrats and Obama backers are more in evidence on the internet than backers of other candidates or parties."

Then they add: "Among Democrats, Obama's supporters are more likely than Hillary Clinton's supporters to be internet users -- 82 % vs. 71%."

Unsurprisingly, the survey found that almost two thirds of Obama supporters get their political news and information on the internet, versus 56% of McCain supporters.