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While television remains the primary source for voters to get information on the presidential candidates positions, the Internet is the second most used source with 17.8 percent of voters saying they get their information about election issues online according to a survey from Burst Media.One-fifth (21.5%) of men say the Internet is their main source on the positions that the presidential candidates have on major election issues. Among men 25-34 years old, 28.6 percent cite the Internet as their primary source of election information.

Forty-four percent of voters expect the next President to be Internet savvy, according to a new poll done by Zogby International on behalf of the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee(CICAC).

The number of Americans who used the Internet as their main source of news about the 2006 mid-term election slightly more than doubled over the 2002 mid-term election. A new report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project called "Election 2006 Online" said that 15 percent of Americans used the Internet as their primary source of information about the 2006 election. That was an 8 percent increase since 2002.

Yahoo's network has helped drive more than one million Americans to download voter registration forms in collaboration with Declare Yourself, a nonpartisan, nonprofit youth voting campaign founded by Norman Lear.

As always, politicians are attempting to do everything they can to get their messages out to prospective voters in a timely manner and on a limited budget.