Objective. One explanation for why voters' preferences are privileged by policymakers is that voters are likely to communicate their preferences through additional avenues as well. We examine this "communication hypothesis" by comparing the policy preferences of different types of political participators. Methods. We analyze the National Annenberg Election Survey (2008) using latent class analysis to identify different types of political participators and multinomial logistic regression to compare the policy preferences of these participator types. Results. Voters who also engage in additional online and/or offline political acts have policy preferences that differ in a number of meaningful ways from those who "only" vote. Conclusion. The findings indicate that prior research has overlooked important evidence on the connection between citizen participation and political outcomes due to a primary focus on the act of voting. This study suggests how future research can assess the impact of citizens' broader patterns of political participation.As voting rates have remained stable or declined in advanced democracies, scholars of political participation have viewed the increased prevalence of political participation beyond the vote-both offline and online-as an important potential avenue for alternative civic and political engagement. Focusing on the United States, Dalton concluded that even though electoral turnout declined somewhat in the United States over the past several decades, "the repertoire of political action has actually expanded, and people are now engaged in other ways . . . adding to the tools of political activism" (Dalton, 2008:90-94). In addition to the increased prevalence of familiar "old" political activities like petitioning and protesting, various new forms of online * Direct correspondence to Jennifer Oser, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 3131 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 oser@post.harvard.edu . Jennifer Oser will share all data and coding for replication purposes. We would like to thank