The vast majority of Americans say they followed coverage of
the first presidential debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, including
56% who followed the debate live. Most of these real-time viewers watched on
television, but 11% of live debate watchers were “dual screeners,” following coverage
on a computer or mobile device at the same time as following television
coverage. Another 3% say they followed the debate live exclusively online.
The post-debate survey by the Pew Research Center for the
People & the Press, conducted Oct. 4-7 among 1,006 adults, finds younger
Americans are especially likely to be “dual-screeners,” following the debate
live on both television and a computer or mobile device.
Overall, 32% of those younger than 40 say they followed the
debate live online, including 22% who followed it both on television and
online, and 10% who followed exclusively on a computer or mobile device. Those
40-to-64 are less likely to have followed live online (11%); just 1% followed
only online, while 10% followed online as well as on television. Very few
Americans 65 and older followed the debate live online (2%) and none followed
live coverage exclusively on a computer or mobile device.
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