So dedicated to using the Internet is Jones that he assigned a team of Web masters to teach nearly two dozen staff members in his office how to design Web pages. Online voters are finding the Internet a tremendous tool. From an information standpoint, you can get all the detail you need, you can find out positions on issues and you can correspond without taking up too much time. While 47 percent of California voters are registered Democrats and 37 percent are Republicans. Field's e-mail voters are equally divided at 41 percent each.
Online voters are younger, more affluent, more educated and weighted with males.
According to DiCamillo, they're also more likely to read newspapers and less likely to get their news from television than their non-Net counterparts. They're less partisan, less ideological and more independent than their offline counterparts. Interestingly, the latest Field Poll found that among all likely voters. Lt. Gov. Gray Davis at 11 percent. But among online voters, Lungren dropped to 20 percent, Herman rose to 19 percent while Checchi and Davis were tied at 10 percent.