A new Pew Research Center poll out Monday shows that Republicans are much more likely than Democrats to follow the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail account and server while at the State Department, a story that broke last week.
The survey asked individuals to state whether or not they followed each of the major news stories that were covered last week. While 34 percent of Republicans said they followed the Hillary e-mail story, only 16 percent of Democrats said they did the same.
Interestingly enough, liberal Democrats were more likely than their more center-of-the-road counterparts to follow the report. Twenty-two percent of liberal Democrats tracked the Hillary news, and 44 percent of conservative Republicans did the same. However, only 11 percent of Independents tuned into the Hillary coverage.
Americans ages 18 to 29 were the least likely by far to follow the Clinton story: Only 4 percent of Millennials paid attention to this part of the news. No wonder Millennials overwhelmingly favor Hillary as the choice for president ahead of the 2016 election.
However, it’s important to note that these young Americans lagged behind their older counterparts in their observance of each of the other three big stories last week: The Obamacare Supreme Court arguments, the Department of Justice reports on Ferguson, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress Tuesday.
Unsurprisingly, Republicans (34 percent) were also more likely to follow the Netanyahu coverage than their Democratic counterparts (18 percent), and that particular story received nearly no interest among Millennials (3 percent).
In contrast, both the Obamacare and Ferguson reports received more equal attention from Republicans and Democrats throughout the week.
The survey was conducted between March 5 and 8 and involved 1,000 American adults.
