More than half of Americans are following election news closely, and many are already worn out
More than half of Americans (58%) say they are following news about candidates for the 2024 presidential election very or fairly closely.
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More than half of Americans (58%) say they are following news about candidates for the 2024 presidential election very or fairly closely.
Similar shares of U.S. adults believe news organizations are giving too much attention (32%) or too little attention (29%) to Biden’s age.
During the first 60 days of the new administration, roughly half of stories about the Biden administration mentioned Donald Trump in some way.
The public is more likely to have heard “a lot” about ongoing confrontations between police and protesters than several other stories.
We thought it would be valuable to combine our study of news coverage itself with data on people’s views about, and exposure to, that coverage.
About half of U.S. adults (49%) followed Ebola news very closely last week, elevating the story to our list of most-followed events since 2010.
The public paid relatively little attention to last week’s major Supreme Court ruling striking down campaign contribution limits, but other high-profile cases do get a lot of attention.
Three politicians who were forced from office by scandal are currently attempting comebacks. They are trying to overcome misdeeds that put them in the top five political scandals of recent years as measured by the amount of news coverage.
Afghanistan President Harmid Karzai has been much in the news lately, but he still trails far behind the top newsmaker among overseas leaders this year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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