{"id":49910,"date":"2012-06-12T08:50:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T13:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2012\/06\/12\/economy-election-are-publics-top-stories\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:10:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:10:37","slug":"economy-election-are-publics-top-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2012\/06\/12\/economy-election-are-publics-top-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy, Election Are Public\u2019s Top Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"overview\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/?attachment_id=20043258\"><img data-dominant-color=\"dee1e4\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #dee1e4;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"292\" height=\"326\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/06\/6-12-2012-1.png?resize=292,326 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" class=\"wp-image-67788 not-transparent\" title=\"6-12-2012 #1\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/06\/6-12-2012-1.png\" alt=\"\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The public continued to track news about the economy and the presidential election, while paying less attention to another important political story \u2013 Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker\u2019s victory in a hard-fought recall election.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest weekly News Interest Index, conducted June 7-10 among 1,000 adults by the Pew Research Center for the People &amp; the Press, finds that 35% say they followed reports about U.S. economic conditions very closely while 30% tracked news about the presidential election very closely.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The public expressed less interest in news about the Wisconsin recall election (21% very closely), European economic problems (18%) and the CIA killing of an al Qaeda leader in a drone strike in Pakistan (16%).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Wisconsin recall election attracted more interest among Republicans (31% very closely) than Democrats or independents (20% each).<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/?attachment_id=20043259\"><img data-dominant-color=\"ecedee\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #ecedee;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"292\" height=\"255\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/06\/6-12-2012-2.png?resize=292,255 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" class=\"wp-image-67794 not-transparent\" title=\"6-12-2012 #2\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/06\/6-12-2012-2.png\" alt=\"\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just 6% of Americans say they very closely followed news about recent conflicts between the Vatican and U.S. nuns. Fewer than one-in-five (14%) followed this story either very or fairly closely; 84% say they followed this news not too closely or not at all closely.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even among Catholics, this story attracted little interest. In fact, nearly identical percentages of Catholics (16%), Protestants (14%) and the religiously unaffiliated (14%) paid very close attention to the conflicts between the Vatican and American nuns. White Catholics are somewhat more interested than are white Protestants (22% very closely vs. 13% very closely).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These findings are based on the most recent installment of the weekly News Interest Index, an ongoing project of the Pew Research Center for the People &amp; the Press, building on the Center\u2019s longstanding research into public attentiveness to major news stories.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public continued to track news about the economy and the presidential election, while paying less attention to another important political story \u2013 Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker\u2019s victory in a hard-fought recall election. 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