{"id":96183,"date":"2009-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2009\/01\/05\/our-voter-engagement-report-in-the-press\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:17:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:17:51","slug":"our-voter-engagement-report-in-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/2009\/01\/05\/our-voter-engagement-report-in-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Voter Engagement Report in the Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While quite a few excellent pieces came out last week based on our <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/PPF\/r\/271\/report_display.asp\">Post Election Voter Engagement report<\/a>, my personal favorite is probably Julian Sanchez&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20081231-pew-finds-obamas-online-army-still-marching.html\">article<\/a> over at Ars Technica. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> While the piece has much to recommend it, I particularly liked how the author took our findings about involvement with the online transition and tied them in with some <a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/reports\/questionnaires\/474.pdf\">historical People-Press data<\/a> that I tracked down with the help of Scott Keeter, the Pew Research Center&#8217;s director of survey research. One question that naturally arises from our findings is, &#8220;To what extent is this level of engagement actually new or surprising?&#8221; Mr. Sanchez not only took the time to ask the question, he also used the Pew Research Center&#8217;s archive of existing data to answer it in an interesting way. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Finally, while I&#8217;m highlighting the work of Ars Technica in general and Mr. Sanchez in particular, he also had a thought-provoking <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/journals\/law.ars\/2009\/01\/02\/reinventing-conservatism-one-tweet-at-a-time\">follow-up post<\/a> on conservative efforts to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebuildtheparty.com\/plan\">rebuild the party<\/a>&#8221; using technology. GOP tech guru Mindy Finn makes an appearance in the comments, and a spirited discussion ensues. The two pieces make for a nice companion set, since the relatively low expectations of GOP voters (particularly when it comes to hearing from their &#8220;team&#8221; through social media) were a key component of our report that was somewhat lost in the focus on Obama and the transition process.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica has a great write-up of our recent Voter Engagement 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