---
title: "Viral Politics"
description: "Two-in-five Americans have gone online for campaign information."
date: "2008-08-18"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2008/08/18/viral-politics/"
---

# Viral Politics

The number of Americans who have used the internet for campaign news and information so far this year (40%) already exceeds the number who went online for politics during the entire 2004 campaign (34%). Moreover, the proportion of Americans getting political news and information on any given day in the spring of 2008 has more than doubled, compared with a similar period in 2004. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/869/politics-goes-viral-online)