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.
In just five years, the percentage of Republicans with at least some trust in national news organizations has been cut in half.
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.
Differences within each party on views of foreign policy emerge based on where Americans turn for political news.
A majority of voters said it is very or somewhat important to them to get messages from the presidential campaigns about important issues.
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While U.S. Democrats turn to a variety of outlets for political news, no source comes close to matching the appeal of Fox News for Republicans.
There’s broad concern among Democrats and Republicans about the influence that made-up news could have during the 2020 presidential election.
About one-in-ten Americans (9%) did not learn about this year’s presidential election in a given week from any of 11 types of sources asked about in a January Pew Research Center survey. One striking trait of this group is their lack of faith in the impact of voting. Half of this group thinks that their […]
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