Americans are following news about presidential candidates much less closely than COVID-19 news
With Election Day six months away, 52% of Americans are paying fairly close or very close attention to news about the presidential candidates.
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With Election Day six months away, 52% of Americans are paying fairly close or very close attention to news about the presidential candidates.
Those most likely to say COVID-19 threatens day-to-day life live in urban areas in states that have seen relatively high numbers of cases.
While 43% of Americans say the new coronavirus most likely came about naturally, nearly three-in-ten say it most likely was created in a lab.
A majority of voters said it is very or somewhat important to them to get messages from the presidential campaigns about important issues.
31% of U.S. adults say they discuss the outbreak with other people most of the time; another 13% say they talk about it almost all of the time.
77% of white evangelicals say they are at least somewhat confident that the president is doing a good job responding to the outbreak.
World War II service members’ numbers have dwindled from around 939,000 veterans in 2015 to about 300,000 in 2020.
Older adults tend to account for large shares of both poll workers and voters in general elections in the United States.
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