The Pew Internet and American Life Project, the folks who brought you such classics as "The Future of the Internet" and "The Internet and Everyday Life", have just released a new study. "The Internet and Campaign 2004" looks at the effect of the internet on the recent campaign cycle — and the ways 75 million Americans used the internet to decide on a candidate, get involved or contribute money. I've only had a chance to skim the report — and I'm sure that in coming days more will be said about it — but, in addition to the credit given to the Dean campaign for their innovative use of the internet, two things jumped out at me. The first is that for the first time since Pew started doing these studies in 1996, the internet passed radio as a primary source of political information. In doing so, online has inched even closer to newspapers in this category while still lagging pretty far behind television. The second thing that I noticed: under the chart that lists "The news media Americans use regularly..." was The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which 5% of Americans apparently say they use "regularly." Honestly, even though I'm a huge fan of the show I was surprised to see it on that list — and that it beat out traditional news sources like The Atlantic and The New Yorker — as well as blog powerhouse Daily Kos. Amazing. Then, just as I was feeling really good about Americans and their choice of news sources, I saw the line above The Daily Show in that chart and saw Rush Limbaugh. Ugh. The same number of Americans, 5%, claim to be Dittoheads (no relation), listening to Limbaugh's rantings on a regular basis. How can so many Americans be so wrong? At least Jon cancels Rush out.