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title: "BarackObama.com to Change.gov"
description: "About a quarter of wired Obama voters have gone online to learn about or get involved with the presidential transition process."
date: "2009-01-12"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2009/01/12/barackobama-com-to-change-gov/"
---

# BarackObama.com to Change.gov

Among voters who supported Barack Obama in November, and use the internet, a quarter (27%) have gone online to get information or participate in discussions about the presidential transition process since Election Day. Among all online Americans, 15% have visited a website affiliated with the transition, including 10% of McCain-Palin voters. Obama supporters who were politically active online during the campaign are much more likely to be tracking the transition on the internet (33%) than are Obama voters who use the internet but were not active online during the campaign (4%). [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1068/post-election-voter-engagement)