Nearly two-thirds (62 percent) of Americans say they feel burned out by the high volume of news coverage of the 2024 presidential campaigns and candidates, according to one study. Pew Research Center Survey published Tuesday.
About a third (35 percent) of respondents, on the other hand, said they “like to see a lot of coverage of the campaign and candidates” in the survey, conducted April 8-14.
Pew also showed an inverse relationship between how closely people said they followed election news and how worn out they were by it.
Overall, 58 percent of Americans said they have been following news about the 2024 presidential candidates very or fairly closely, while 28 percent said they do not follow it very closely and 13 percent said they do not follow it 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 “reasonably” closely, 61% said they feel worn out.
Among those who said they don’t follow it “very closely,” 70 percent said they feel burned out, while among those who said they don’t follow it “at all” closely, 77 percent said they feel burned out.
Pew reported that Republicans were slightly less likely than Democrats to say they are worn out by election coverage — 58% of Republicans compared to 66% of Democrats.
Conservative Republicans were significantly less likely (55 percent) to burn out on coverage than moderate or liberal Republicans (65 percent).
The poll comes as Americans have long reported feeling “dread” and “exhaustion” at 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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