In its newest report, the Pew Internet and American Life Project has revealed that nearly 30 percent American adults used the Internet to read or watch "uncensored" campaign material, whether it be footage of debates or announcements or transcripts of speeches and so on.

The report found YouTube and other video Web sites having soared in popularity with 35 percent American adults having watched a political video online during the primary season. It found 10 percent of adults as having used social networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace for political activities. It found video- and social- networking to have increased since the last presidential election.
An interesting revelation: Pew found online fund-raising to have gone up to six percent as compared to just two percent in 2004. Democrat Barack Obama was found to be particularly good at raising funds online; Obama supporters were found twice as likely as those of Democrat Hillary Clinton or Republican John McCain to have made an online contribution to the campaign.

To top it all, the Pew report found that though so many Americans were obviously using the Internet to get a bird's eye view of the campaign, as many as 60 percent did not trust the Internet fearing widespread misinformation and propaganda.