43% of Likely Voters Get Political Info Online (and they're mostly LIBERAL)

LiberalHeart

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Sun Oct-29-06 02:44 PM
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43% of Likely Voters Get Political Info Online (and they're mostly LIBERAL)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Increasing numbers of people looking for political news are going online, with more than a third now saying they check the Internet for such information. That group is more likely to be younger, better educated and male than the population in general, an Associated Press-AOL News poll found.

While 35% say they go to the Internet for political updates about campaigns and candidates, that number grows to 43% of likely voters -- and they tend to be more liberal than conservative.

More:
http://wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=5604679

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LiberalFighter

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Sun Oct-29-06 02:52 PM
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1. Hmmm.... Looking for the truth?

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gristy

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Sun Oct-29-06 03:16 PM
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2. Here's what I want to know

1. What % of Republicans get their political news online
2. What % of Democrats get their political news online
3. What % of likely voters who say they will vote Democratic get their political news online
4. What % of likely voters who say they will vote Republican get their political news online

Answers to those last two would be very interesting.

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ChairmanAgnostic

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Sun Oct-29-06 03:17 PM
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3. Reading is a skill not mastered by many Americans, especially these days.

It is no surprise that up to 37% are functionally illiterate, they get their political news while sitting in a pew, and watch Fox News religiously.

Now in an unrelated manner, I see that Bush is polling 37% again. That seems to be high, somehow.

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TexasLawyer

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Sun Oct-29-06 03:56 PM
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4. network news

TV news made itself irrelevant to me long ago. It is 90% blond-girl-gone-missing, war pimpiming, and other crap. All while the big, complicated stories of our day go unreported.

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stillcool

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Sun Oct-29-06 03:59 PM
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5. I would imagine that young people...

would be more open to on-line sites, than their television raised parents. It amazes me how much stock people still put, in cable news. I don't understand it.

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darkism

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Sun Oct-29-06 04:00 PM
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6. I like how this is written.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Increasing numbers of people looking for political news are going online, with more than a third now saying they check the Internet for such information. That group is more likely to be younger, better educated and male than the population in general, an Associated Press-AOL News poll found.

While 35% say they go to the Internet for political updates about campaigns and candidates, that number grows to 43% of likely voters -- and they tend to be more liberal than conservative.

Says all that needs to be said. We hold the moral and intellectual high ground against these simple-minded thugs. :)

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Jackpine Radical

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Sun Oct-29-06 05:35 PM
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7. The Corporate Media have made themselves irrelevant.

Indy news, YouTube, blogs, etc. are the future. The answer to deregulation is...well, more deregulation, but deregulation accompanied by decentralization. I expect that there will be a million competing news sources in the future, competing for eyeballs & advertising $, yuan, yen and Euros. And the world will be the better for it.

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high density

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Sun Oct-29-06 05:55 PM
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8. What else is a liberal to do?

We certainly can't rely on print or TV to get our information these days. Everybody is rolling over themselves to get the eyeballs of the fascist right slice of the country, leaving us lefties to look for decent information elsewhere.

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LiberalHeart

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Sun Oct-29-06 11:32 PM
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12. That's an excellent point.

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aquart

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Sun Oct-29-06 06:52 PM
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9. Or, older and pissed off.

We don't trust TV or newspapers to tell us the truth. Especially not TV.

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Cha

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Sun Oct-29-06 07:42 PM
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10. Yeah!, because tv channels like

cnn have to be protested by more than a thousand in LA because..

"Protesters March On CNN For 'Pro-War' Coverage
(CBS) LOS ANGELES More than a thousand people marched on CNN's Hollywood bureau Saturday, calling for an end to the war in Iraq."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2509333

I was hoping this would happen eventually that the news cabals would be marched upon and more and more would turn to the internet to get the real news..not manufactured by the fucking mediawhores.

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nevergiveup

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Sun Oct-29-06 11:11 PM
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11. What % of Republicans

get their political information from Rush? Just curious

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