35% of all adults have watched a politically related video
Fact recorded on: August 4, 2008. Categories: General, Internet usage, WWW.
35% of all adults have watched a politically related video so far. Some 16% of adults have read candidates’ position papers online, and 9% have read the full text of a candidate’s speech online. 47% of online adults have watched at least one type of online political video (out of a list of five possible types of videos) in the past several months-this represents 35% of all adults, according to Pew Internet Project.
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