40% of adults use internet to get news about the election
Fact recorded on: August 3, 2008. Categories: Internet usage.
40% of all adults have used the internet to get political news and information about the campaign so far, up from 31% at the same point in the 2004 presidential race, according to the Pew Internet Project.
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