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"54% of adults used the internet for political purposes in the last cycle, far surpassing the 2006 midterm contest. They hold mixed views about the impact of the internet: It enables extremism, while helping the like-minded find each other. It provides diverse sources, but makes it harder to find truthful sources.

Fully 73% of adult internet users (representing 54% of all US adults) went online to get news or information about the 2010 midterm elections, or to get involved in the campaign in one way or another. We refer to these individuals as “online political users” and our definition includes anyone who did at least one of the following activities in 2010"

In this survey it shows how people use the internet to look up political information. It says that since 2006, there has been a huge growth in internet usage in finding political information. That information helps my topic because it shows how instead of reading the newspaper or watching the news on t.v people can now find exactly what they want to see on the internet. The survery also says that people that use the internet for things like political information may be misinformed because anybody can post anything they want on the internet. Because of this, using the internet may give you false information.The author wants uses a type of prapoganda that makes people more interested in this article and to hopefully believe it. That prapoganda technique is the use of statistics. Since it is a article there are a myriad of statictics throughout. I believe that that technique has worked very well because I find this surver and articel very convincing and believable becasue it has statistics.

Smith, Aron. "The internet and Campaign 2010." www.pewinternet.org. pewinternet.org, 03/11/2011. Web. 21 Mar 2011. <http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/The-Internet-and-Campaign-2010.aspx>.