Tuesday, August 30, 2016

IF HILLARY IS INCAPACITATED... THIS MAN IS NEXT IN LINE TO BE PRESIDENT! Elections have consequences!

THIS IS MUSLIM LOVER TIM KAINE HILLARY CLINTON’S VP. NOW YOU KNOW WHY HE WAS CHOSEN!

IF HILLARY IS INCAPACITATED... THIS MAN IS NEXT IN LINE TO BE PRESIDENT!  

 Elections have consequences! 

 

Tim Kaine’s Islamist Ties Click on links for verification of facts!

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s newly-announced running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, has a history of embracing Islamists. He appointed a Hamas supporter to a state immigration commission; spoke at a dinner honoring a Muslim Brotherhood terror suspect; and received donations from well-known Islamist groups.

SPREAD THIS: Tim Kaine’s SHOCKING Muslim Brotherhood Connections Revealed

Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton might be feeling rather pleased with her selection of Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, but his disturbing connections to Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood are leaving the rest of American voters feeling nervous. Breitbart News reported that in 2007, Kaine, then-governor of Virginia, appointed Muslim American Society President Esam Omeish, supporter of the terrorist group Hamas, to the state’s Immigration Commission. At least one Muslim organization against Islamism, the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, criticized Kaine’s decision. In 2008, federal prosecutors alleged in court documents that MAS was “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.”
Omeish’s website indicates he was president of the National Muslim Students Association, which was was created by Muslim Brotherhood members at the University of Illinois. In addition, Kaine served for two years on the national board of the Islamic Society of North America, a group identified as a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity. On Sept. 25, 2011, Kaine spoke at an event that presented an activist named Jamal Barzinji with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The event was organized by the New Dominion PAC, an Arab American political action committee based in northern Virginia.
The Global Muslim Brotherhood Watch describes Barzinji as a “founding father of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.” The New Dominion PAC donated $43,050 to Kaine’s gubernatorial campaign between 2003 and 2005, Breitbart reported. It also has strong ties to the Democratic Party in Virginia, with nearly $257,000 in donations going toward various projects. Other donors to Kaine’s campaigns include Islamic Society of North America and the Council on American-Islamic Relations
 
It looks like Clinton has chosen a running mate with as many disturbing Islamist connections as she has. Kaine puts as much value in the vetting process as President Barack Obama does (which isn’t much) and doesn’t seem to mind taking money from organizations linked to terrorism. According to many in the mainstream media, Clinton chose Kaine because he somehow added strength to her campaign’s national security credentials. 
 
His Islamic ties are just as shady as Clinton and Obama’s — and they should have every American worried about what kind of leadership they would bring the country. H/T Red Flag News Share this story to let everyone know about Kaine’s dangerous ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. 
 
ANOTHER BREAKING STORY!! Appointing a Muslim Brotherhood Front Leader Who Supports Hamas In 2007, Kaine was the Governor of Virginia and, of all people, chose Muslim American Society (MAS) President Esam Omeish to the state’s Immigration Commission. A Muslim organization against Islamism criticized the appointment and reckless lack of vetting. Federal prosecutors said in a 2008 court filing that MAS was “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.” A Chicago Tribune investigation in 2004 confirmed it, as well as MAS’ crafty use of deceptive semantics to appear moderate. Convicted terrorist and admitted U.S. Muslim Brotherhood member Abdurrahman Alamoudi testified in 2012, “Everyone knows that MAS is the Muslim Brotherhood.” Read our fully-documented profile of MAS here. According to Omeish’s website, he was also President of the National Muslim Students Association (click there to read our profile about its Muslim Brotherhood origins) and served for two years on the national board of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which the Justice Department also labeled as a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-financing trial. His website says he was Vice President of Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center, a radical mosque known for its history of terror ties including having future Al-Qaeda operative Anwar Al-Awlaki as its imam and being frequented by two of the 9/11 hijackers and the perpetrator of the Fort Hood shooting. Omeish’s website says he remains a board member. It says he was chairman of the board of Islamic American University, which had Hamas financier and Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef Al-Qaradawi as chairman of its board until at least 2006. Omeish was also chairman of the board for the Islamic Center of Passaic County, a New Jersey mosque with heavy terrorist ties and an imam that the Department of Homeland Security wants to deport for having links to Hamas. Omeish directly expressed extremism before Kaine appointed him. He claimed the Brotherhood is “moderate” and admitted that he and MAS are influenced by the Islamist movement. In 2004, Omeish praised the Hamas spiritual leader as “our beloved Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.” Videotape from 2000 also surfaced where Omeish pledged to help Palestinians who understand “the jihad way is the way to liberate your land” (he denied this was an endorsement of violence). When a state delegate wrote a letter to then-Governor Kaine warning him that the MAS has “questionable origins,” a Kaine spokesperson said the charge was bigotry. Kaine obviously failed to do any kind of basic background checking in Omeish. Omeish resigned under heavy pressure and Kaine acknowledged that his statements “concerned” him. But, apparently, they didn’t concern him enough to actually learn about the Muslim Brotherhood network in his state and to take greater precautions in the future.  
 
Speaking at a Dinner Honoring Muslim Brotherhood Terror Suspect In September 2011, Kaine spoke at a “Candidates Night” dinner organized by the New Dominion PAC that presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for Jamal Barzinji, who the Global Muslim Brotherhood Watch describes as a “founding father of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.” He first came on to the FBI’s radar in 1987-1988 when an informant inside the Brotherhood identified Barzinji and his associated groups as being part of a network of Brotherhood fronts to “institute the Islamic Revolution in the United States.” The source said Barzinji and his colleagues were “organizing political support which involves influencing both public opinion in the United States as well as the United States Government” using “political action front groups with no traceable ties.” Barzinji had his home searched as part of a terrorism investigation in 2003. U.S. Customs Service Senior Special Agent David Kane said in a sworn affidavit that Barzinji and the network of entities he led were investigated because he “is not only closed associated with PIJ [Palestinian Islamic Jihad]…but also with Hamas.” Counter-terrorism reporter Patrick Poole broke the story that Barzinji was nearly prosecuted but the Obama Justice Department dropped plans for indictment. Barzinji played a major role in nearly every Brotherhood front in the U.S. and was vice president of the International Institute of Islamic Thought, which came under terrorism investigation also. Barzinji’s group was so close to Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative Sami Al-Arian that IIIT’s President considered his group and Al-Arian’s to be essentially one entity. The indictment of Al-Arian and his colleagues says that they “would and did seek to obtain support from influential individuals, in the United States under the guise of promoting and protecting Arab rights” (emphasis mine). 
 
The quotes about Brotherhood operative Barzinji’s aspirations to use civil rights advocacy as a means to influence politicians are especially relevant when you consider that video from the event honoring Barzinji shows Kaine saying that it was his fourth time at the annual dinner and thanked his “friends” that organized it for helping him in his campaign for Lieutenant-Governor and Governor and asked them to help his Senate campaign. Islamist Financial Support Barzinji’s organization, IIIT, donated $10,000 in 2011 to the New Dominion PAC, the organization that held the event honoring Barzinji that Kaine spoke at. The Barzinji-tied New Dominion PAC donated $43,050 to Kaine’s gubernatorial campaign between 2003 and 2005. That figure doesn’t even include other political recipients that assisted Kaine’s campaign. The PAC has very strong ties to the Democratic Party in Virginia, with the Virginia Public Access Project tallying almost $257,000 in donations. This likely explains why Barzinji’s grandson served in Governor McAuliffe’s administration and then became the Obama Administration’s liaison to the Muslim-American community. The Middle East Forum’s Islamist Money in Politics database shows another $4,300 donated to Kaine’s Senate campaign in 2011-2012 by officials from Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Another $3,500 came from Hisham Al-Talib, a leader from Barzinji’s IIIT organization. It’s worth noting that Barzinji’s IIIT donated $3,500 to Esam Omeish’s 2009 campaign delegate campaign, tying together the cadre of Muslim Brotherhood-linked leaders who got into Kaine’s orbit. Conclusion Kaine has no excuse. If he has an Internet connection, then he and his staff should have known about their backgrounds. They were either extremely careless (something Kaine would have in common with the top of the ticket) or knew and looked the other way in the hopes of earning donations and votes. Clinton’s choice of Kaine is widely seen as a way of strengthening her campaign’s national security credentials. How can you trust a candidate on national security who appoints a Hamas supporter to their immigration commission and speaks at a dinner honoring a Muslim Brotherhood terror suspect? And how can you trust a candidate who picks such a person as their “strong on national security” running mate?

Minnesota Born Tim Kaine Shares Similar Islamist Ties To Keith Ellison

Before he was named Hillary Clinton’s running mate for the Democratic presidential ticket, Tim Kaine was born in St. Paul, became a governor and senator from Virginia and he also has a history of embracing Islamists. According to recent articles in Breitbart and The Clarion Project, Kaine had appointed a Hamas supporter to a state immigration commission when he was Governor of Virginia. Kaine also spoke at a dinner honoring a Muslim Brotherhood terror suspect and he received donations from well-known Islamist groups. During Kaine’s tenure as Governor, he chose Muslim American Society (MAS) President Esam Omeish to the state’s Immigration Commission. This appointment was criticized by The American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) a Muslim organization against Islamism and said that Omeish’s appointment was a reckless lack of vetting. According to it’s website, the AIFD’s mission is to advocate for the preservation of the founding principles of the United States Constitution, liberty and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state. In a 2007 letter written by AIFD’s founder Dr. M. Zudhi Jasser, it read, “Many of Dr. Omeish’s statements and activities in the past have in fact been a manifestation of political Islam and his attempt to use the Muslim community as a tool in a specific Islamist political agenda. This not only violates the core principles of the separation of religion and politics, which is a cornerstone of our nation, but is in fact the main mechanism of influence of transnational Islamism. His public advocacy of ‘jihad’ in the Middle East by co-religionists implicitly via terrorist organizations like Hezbullah or HAMAS against Israel, an ally of the United States, should certainly highlight the toxicity of Islamism as a political ideology– regardless of the ideological jujitsu one uses to define ‘jihad’. This becomes especially concerning in an individual appointed to contribute to a more sound immigration policy because it begs the question: Will this appointee’s point of view be one primarily of American nationalism and security first, or will it be one of transnational global Islamism?” In a 2008 court filing, federal prosecutors said that MAS was “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.” A 2004 Chicago Tribune investigation confirmed this, as well as MAS’ use of deception to appear moderate. Abdurrahman Alamoudi, a convicted terrorist and admitted U.S. Muslim Brotherhood member testified in 2012, “Everyone knows that MAS is the Muslim Brotherhood.” Omeish’s website lists a resume of his Muslim Brotherhood affiliations including President of the National Muslim Students Association (MSA) and serving on the national board of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). The Justice Department labeled ISNA a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-financing trial. Omeish was also the vice president of Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center, which is a radical mosque with a history of terrorist ties. Al-Qaeda operative Anwar Al-Awlaki served as its imam and the mosque was frequented by two of the 9/11 hijackers as well as Nidal Hassan, who was responsible for the Fort Hood shootings. In addition, Omeish was chairman of the board for both the Islamic American University and The Islamic Center of Passaic County. Yousef Al-Qaradawi, a Hamas financier and Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader was chairman of the board of the Islamic American University. The Islamic Center of Passaic County is a New Jersey mosque also with terrorist ties. The Department of Homeland Security wanted to deport the imam at this particular mosque for having links to Hamas. Prior to being appointed by Tim Kaine to the Virginia’s Immigration Commission, Omeish directly expressed extremism and claimed the Muslim Brotherhood is “moderate” and admitted that he and MAS are influenced by the Islamic movement. A videotape from 2000 surfaced where Omeish pledged to help Palestinians who understand “the jihad way is the way to liberate your land.” Afterwards, he denied this was an endorsement of violence. When a state delegate, in a written letter to then Governor Kaine, warned the governor that MAS had “questionable origins,” a spokesperson for Kaine said the charge was bigotry. Eventually, Omeish resigned his position on the state immigration commission under much pressure. Kaine acknowledged that Omeish’s statements “concerned him” but obviously didn’t concern him enough to learn about Omeish’s Muslim Brotherhood ties and to properly vet him before appointing him to the commission. In an interesting tie to Minnesota politics, Omeish has donated approximately $4,950 to Keith Ellison’s congressional campaign from 2006 through 2015, according to the website Islamist Watch, “which illuminates a little-explored facet of Islamist political influence in the United States.” The website goes on to say that by tracking such donations, Islamist Watch seeks to “highlight this hidden concern and hold politicians accountable for accepting funds from individuals, who in the words of the Muslim Brotherhood Explanatory Memorandum, understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western Civilization from within.” In September 2011, Kaine was a speaker at a “Candidates Night” dinner which was sponsored by the New Dominion PAC that presented a Lifetime Achievement Award to Jamal Barzinji, who is described as a “founding father of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood” by the Global Muslim Brotherhood Watch. According to an article in Clarionproject.org, Barzinji first came to the FBI’s attention in 1987-1988 when an informant inside the Muslim Brotherhood identified Barzinji and his associated groups as being a part of a network of Brotherhood fronts to “institute the Islamic Revolution in the United States.” The source said that Barzinji and his groups were “organizing political support which involves influencing both public opinion in the United States as well as the United States Government using political action front groups with no traceable ties.” In 2003, Barzinji’s home was searched as part of a terrorism investigation. A U.S. Custom’s Service Senior Special Agent said in a sworn affidavit that Barzinji and the network of entities he led were investigated because he is not only closely associated with Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ), but also with Hamas. Barzinji was nearly prosecuted, however the Obama justice department dropped plans for indictment. Barzinji has played a major role in nearly every Brotherhood front in the United States and was vice president of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), which was also being investigated for terrorist ties. The group was essentially considered one entity with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad because of Barzinji’s close ties to the PIJ’s operative Sami Al-Arian. Al-Arian and his colleagues “would and did seek to obtain support from influential individuals, in the United States under the guise of promoting and protecting Arab rights.” Barzinji’s use of civil rights advocacy as a means to influence elected officials are glaring when you consider a video from the event that honored Barzinji shows Kaine telling the audience that it was his fourth time at the annual dinner. Kaine thanked his “friends” for helping him in his campaign for lieutenant-governor and governor and he asked them to help his senate campaign. Clarionproject.com reports that Barzinji’s IIIT donated $10,000 in 2011 to the New Dominion PAC, the organization that held the event honoring Barzinji at which Kaine spoke. The Barzinji-tied New Dominion PAC donated $43,050 to Kaine’s gubernatorial campaign between 2003 and 2005. That figure doesn’t even include other political recipients that assisted Kaine’s campaign. (Barzinji also donated $2,750 to Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison from 2008 to 2013, according to Islamist-Watch.org.) The New Dominion PAC has extremely strong ties to the Democratic Party in Virginia, with the Virginia Public Access Project raking in almost $257,000 in donations. Interestingly, Barzinji’s grandson served in Governor McAuliffe’s administration and then became the Obama Administration’s liaison to the Muslim-American community. Tim Kaine and his ties to Esam Omeish and Jamal Barzinji are either extremely careless or he knew about their backgrounds and looked the other way in the hopes of earning more donations and votes. The choice of Tim Kaine as Hillary Clinton’s vice president was seen as a way to boost her campaign’s national security experience, yet she is asking America to trust a candidate with national security expertise who appoints a Hamas supporter to an immigration commission and attends and speaks at dinners that honor a Muslim Brotherhood terror suspect.

Monday, August 29, 2016

THE DONALD TRUMP CAMPAIGN MUST USE THE OLD FASHIONED METHOD OF DISTRIBUTION OF PRINTED LEAFLETS TO REACH THE DISAFFECTED VOTER

 THE DONALD TRUMP CAMPAIGN MUST USE THE OLD FASHIONED METHOD OF DISTRIBUTION OF PRINTED LEAFLETS TO REACH THE DISAFFECTED VOTER WHO DOES NOT TRADITIONALLY VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICANS AND EXPLAIN DONALD TRUMP'S POSITIONS.



The opposition is very good at it but they do not have the numbers we do. LETS MOBILIZE!!

 

LEAFLET CAMPAIGNS HAVE BEEN USED IN OUR COUNTRY IN THE PAST TO BYPASS THE BIASED MEDIA!
See pic below
 
ITS BEING DONE ALL AROUND THE WORLD..





Shown below are the facts about how people who vote get their information.  
The U.S. turnout in the 2012 presidential election which was 53.6%, based on 129.1 million votes cast and an estimated voting-age population of just under 241 million people.

I realize that on social media that we the “political preachers” are preaching to the political choir of our kind of people! Some choirs are bigger than others!

To win we have to start preaching in other people's churches ( metaphorical! ) The public square. Main Street America.

We have to use fliers and leaflets that are printed on copy machines across the country .. in offices we own or work at.. (so there is no extra cost to the Trump Campaign)

Then we must be bold and march out across the country and hand them out at flea markets, supermarkets, churches, colleges, train stations, subway stations, malls anywhere where cross sections of people move through or congregate!

We the Trump Army must be ready to mobilize in cities across the USA.. and change the minds of those who do not hear the real message.

WE MUST NEUTRALIZE THE LEFTIST PRO HILLARY MEDIA THAT IS TRYING TO CONTROL THE NARRATIVE.

WE ASK THE DONALD TRUMP CAMPAIGN TO JUST PROVIDE THE WEEKLY OR DAILY MESSAGE ON A ONE PAGE PDF SO WE CAN PRINT AND DISSEMINATE THE MESSAGE ACROSS AMERICA.

SHARE THIS CALL. I HAVE REACHED OUT TO THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND SO SHOULD YOU!

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About nine-in-ten Americans learn about the election in a given week, but they are divided over the most helpful type of source
Vast majority of Americans learning about the 2016 presidential campaign; cable news seen as most helpful source typeNews and information about the contentious 2016 presidential election is permeating the American public, according to a new survey of 3,760 U.S. adults by Pew Research Center. About nine-in-ten U.S. adults (91%) learned about the election in the past week from at least one of 11 types of sources asked about, ranging from television to digital to radio to print.
This is true even among younger Americans, as 83% of 18- to 29-year-olds report learning about the presidential election from at least one stream of information, according to the survey conducted Jan. 12-27, 2016, using Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel.
This high level of learning about the 2016 presidential candidates and campaigns is consistent with recent research that has shown strong interest in this election, even more so than at the same point in the previous two presidential elections.1
Americans are divided, though, in the type of sources they find most helpful for that news and information.
When asked if they got news and information about the election from 11 different source types, and then asked which they found most helpful, Americans were split: None of the source types asked about in the survey was deemed most helpful by more than a quarter of U.S. adults.
At the top of the list is cable news, named as most helpful by 24% of those who learned about the election in the past week. That is at least 10 percentage points higher than any other source type. Our past research indicates though, that the 24% is likely divided ideologically in the specific network they watch and trust.
After cable, five source types are named as most helpful by between 10% and 14% of those who got news about the election: Local TV and social networking sites, each at 14%, news websites and apps at 13%, news radio at 11% and national nightly network television news at 10%.
In the bottom tier are five source types named by no more than 3% of Americans who learned about the election. This includes print versions of both local and national newspapers, named by 3% and 2% respectively. It also includes late night comedy shows (3%) as well as the websites, apps or emails of the candidates or campaigns (1%) and of issue-based groups (2%).
As a platform, television and the Web – and even radio to a lesser degree – strongly appeal to certain parts of the public, while print sits squarely at the bottom. As many people name late night comedy shows as most helpful as do a print newspaper.
Age, education level and political party account for some of the differences here. Cable television’s overall popularity is pronounced among those who are 65 and older and also among Republicans, while social media is the clear favorite among the youngest age group, 18- to 29-year-olds.
About a third of 18 to 29-year-olds name social media as most helpful type of source for learning about the 2016 presidential election
About four-in-ten (43%) of those 65 or older who learned about the election in the past week say cable television news is most helpful, 26 percentage points higher than any other source type and much higher than any other age cohort. In fact, only 12% of 18- to 29-year-olds who learned about the election say that cable news is the most helpful.
Instead, about a third (35%) of 18- to 29-year-olds name a social networking site as their most helpful source type for learning about the presidential election in the past week. This is about twice that of the next nearest type – news websites and apps (18%), another digital stream of information. Social media drops off sharply for older age groups, with 15% of 30 to 49-year-olds, 5% of 50 to 64-year-olds, and just 1% of those 65 years and older saying the same. This is consistent with our previous research, which has shown that social media is the most prominent way that Millennials get political news, more so than any other generation.
The data also reveal the weight network television news and local TV news still carry among those 50 or older. Radio, though, shows consistent appeal across most age groups. Between 11% and 13% of those ages 18-29, 30-49 and 50-64 name radio as most helpful (a figure that falls to 5% among those 65+).
The area of difference that stands out most prominently along party lines is cable news. Republicans are almost twice as likely to say cable news is the most helpful than are Democrats (34% vs. 19%, and 24% among independents). Democrats are slightly more likely to name local TV news, but the gap is much smaller (18%, compared with 12% for both Republicans and independents).
Finally, those with a college degree are more likely than those with some college and those with a high school diploma or less to name radio, national papers in print, and news websites or apps as the most helpful type of source. Those who do not have a college degree are tied more closely to a preference for cable and local TV news.

Beyond what is most helpful, the majority of the public learns about the election from several types of sources

Almost half of those who learn about the presidential election get news & information from five or more source typesEven as U.S. adults find one type of source most helpful, the majority still get election news in a given week from multiple different source types. Indeed, of those who learned about the presidential election in the past week, just 9% learned from just one stream of information. In fact, almost half (45%) learned from five or more information streams.
TV most common for learning about the presidential electionTelevision sources again rise to the top. About three-quarters of U.S. adults (78%) learned about the election from at least one of the four TV-based source types asked about. Local TV and cable news reach the greatest percentages overall (57% and 54% respectively).
This was followed not by another traditional platform, but instead by digital. About two-thirds (65%) of U.S. adults learned about the 2016 election in the past week from digital source types, which includes social networking sites and news websites, as well as digital communication from issue-based groups and the candidates.
Coming in last: print versions of newspapers. Only about one-in-three (36%) U.S. adults learned about the campaign in the past week from either a local or national newspaper in print. The survey specifically asked about the print version of the paper and does not include the representation of newspapers in the digital space (48% of Americans got election news and information from news websites or apps in past week). This is an important distinction, as newspaper properties make up three of the top 10 digital news entities, according to comScore data compiled for our annual State of the News Media report. But it does speak to the precipitous decline of print as a mode of news – even as print-only consumers remain a key part of newspapers’ audiences.
In fact, more Americans cite radio as a source of election information in the past week (44%) than cite a print newspaper. And U.S. adults are roughly as likely to learn about the presidential election from an issue-based group’s website, app, or email (23%) or from late night comedy shows (25%) as from a national print newspaper (23%). And they are only slightly more likely to learn from their local print paper (29%).
While few Americans say issue-based groups or the campaigns themselves are most helpful, their presence as a direct source of information in the digital space comes through in these findings. At least two-in-ten U.S. adults learn about the presidential election directly from the websites, apps or emails of campaign and issue-based groups.
Level of usage differed notably by political party identification for late night comedy shows. They are a source for three-in-ten Democrats, but only 16% of Republicans and a quarter of independents. About a third of those ages 18-29 (34%) learned about the campaigns and candidates from late night comedy shows, higher than any other age group.
More of those who learned from cable news find it most helpful than users of any other type of sourceAnother way to understand the dynamics of these different types of sources is by examining the portion of adults who learn from a type of source who also find that source most helpful. While local and cable TV news are cited at roughly the same rates overall, for example, cable news is far more likely to be named as the most helpful source. About four-in-ten (41%) U.S. adults who say they learned about the election from cable TV news in the past week name it as the most helpful type of source, while this is true of only 22% of those who got news about the presidential election from local TV. Local TV news, then, may be a common, but not crucial source for viewers. (This mirrors past findings that local TV news is the single most common source of political information in the U.S.)

Sharing about the election on social networking sites is much less common than getting news there

Few share news or info about the election on social networking sitesAs we have seen in the past, getting news from social media is far more common than sharing news on social media. About half (51%) of social networking users learned about the presidential election from these sites. But only about one-in-five social networking users (18%) actually share election-related information on social media, whether by posting about it or by replying to or commenting on a post. That amounts to 15% of U.S. adults overall.
Those who learn from more source types are also more likely to share news and information, as are those for whom social media was most helpful for learning about the election. Almost three-in-ten of social media users who learn from 5 or more source types share something related to the presidential election on social media (29%), compared with no more than 12% of those who learned from fewer source types. And a third of those who name social media as their most helpful source (33%) share news and information about the election on these sites. Comparatively, this is true of only 20% of those who name cable news as their most helpful source type and a mere 8% who name local TV news.
Beyond Facebook, small portions of the public learn about the elections on social mediaFinally, while those with higher incomes are more likely to use social networking sites in general, it is lower income users who are more likely to share election-related content: About 20% of social networking users with household incomes under $75,000, compared with 14% of those with incomes of $75,000 or more.
Though it is common to learn about the election on at least one social networking site, Facebook is far and away the site where that is most likely to happen. This is not surprising, given that Facebook is the social networking site used by the most Americans, and is an increasingly common news destination, especially for Millennials. As we have seen before, there is also evidence that getting news from multiple social networking platforms is common: 41% of those who learn about the election on social media get election information from more than one social networking site.

Likely primary voters tend to have wider mix of source types

Those most likely to be primary voters learn from more types of sources and are more likely to share on social mediaThere are a number of ways that the election news habits of Americans who are most likely to participate in the upcoming presidential primaries and caucuses stand apart from those who are less likely to participate.
Overall, those who say they are very likely to participate in their state’s primary or caucus are more likely to learn about the election from multiple source types. Half of those who said they are very likely to participate learned from five or more source types, compared with 40% of those who are less likely to participate.
Cable TV is a more prominent source type for likely primary voters Among those who learned about the 2016 presidential election in the past week, % who say the most helpful source type is …Within this mix of information streams, there are also differences between the two groups in the source types deemed most helpful. While cable ranks first among both groups, those who are very likely to participate show somewhat greater tendency to name both cable (27% vs. 22%) and radio (12% vs. 9%) as most helpful. Conversely, they have a lower tendency to name local TV news (10% vs. 17%) and social media (11% vs. 16%) as most helpful than those who are less likely to participate in their state’s primary or caucus.
Even though those who say they are very likely to participate in their state’s primary or caucus are less likely to name social media as their most helpful source type, they seem to be more engaged in that space: 21% share information about the election on social media, through original posts or replies to content posted by others, compared with 15% of those less likely to participate.