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The Internet electorate

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The 2008 U.S. presidential election demonstrated the Internet is a major source of political information and expression.

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Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 3
March 2011
116 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1897852
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