62 percent worn out by presidential campaign coverage: Survey
Nearly two-thirds (62 percent) of Americans say they feel worn out by the high volume of news coverage of the 2024 presidential campaigns and candidates, according to a Pew Research Center survey published Tuesday.
About one-third (35 percent) of respondents, on the other hand, said they “like seeing a lot of coverage of the campaign and candidates” in the survey, which was conducted April 8-14.
Pew also showed an inverse relationship between how closely people said they follow election news and how worn out they were by it.
Overall, 58 percent of Americans said they have been following the news about the 2024 presidential candidates very or fairly closely, while 28 percent said they aren’t following it too closely, and 13 percent said they aren’t following it closely at all.
Among those who said they follow election news “very” closely, 40 percent said they feel worn out by it. Among those who said they follow “fairly” closely, 61 percent said they feel worn out.
Among those who said they follow “not too closely,” 70 percent said they feel worn out, while among those who said they follow “not at all” closely, 77 percent said they feel worn out.
Pew reported that Republicans were slightly less likely than Democrats to say they are worn out by election coverage — 58 percent of Republicans, compared to 66 percent of Democrats.
Conservative Republicans were significantly less likely (55 percent) to be worn out by the coverage than moderate or liberal Republicans (65 percent).
The poll comes as Americans have long reported feeling “dread” and “exhaustion” about the prospect of a rematch between President Biden and former President Trump.
The Pew Research Center survey included 8,709 U.S. adults and has a margin of sampling error of 1.5 percentage points.
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