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The Internet gets political
More people are turning to the Internet than they did four years ago to find out about the presidential campaign.
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press says only 13 percent of Americans used the Web to learn about presidential candidates in 2004. Now it’s almost one-quarter. And it’s 42 percent for the 18 to 29 age group.
Newspapers and cable news networks held steady during that time at 31 and 38 percent, but nightly news and local TV each slipped a few points.
One site is making it easy to figure out who’s the right candidate for you. Reader Susan Rosen emailed me a link to http://glassbooth.org/, where you can take a quiz and find out which person most likely mirrors your political views.
It asks what issues are most important to you and whether you oppose or support universal health, more domestic surveillance, a timetable for a troop pullout of Iraq and other hot-button questions.
I don’t cover politics, so I guess it’s okay to say that my candidate match was Dennis Kucinich followed by Mike Gravel and John Edwards.
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