![]() ![]() That is at least 10 percentage points higher than any other source type. adults.Īt the top of the list is cable news, named as most helpful by 24% of those who learned about the election in the past week. When asked if they got news and information about the election from 11 different source types, and then asked which they found most helpful, Americans were split: None of the source types asked about in the survey was deemed most helpful by more than a quarter of U.S. 1Īmericans are divided, though, in the type of sources they find most helpful for that news and information. This high level of learning about the 2016 presidential candidates and campaigns is consistent with recent research that has shown strong interest in this election, even more so than at the same point in the previous two presidential elections. 12-27, 2016, using Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel. This is true even among younger Americans, as 83% of 18- to 29-year-olds report learning about the presidential election from at least one stream of information, according to the survey conducted Jan. adults (91%) learned about the election in the past week from at least one of 11 types of sources asked about, ranging from television to digital to radio to print. News and information about the contentious 2016 presidential election is permeating the American public, according to a new survey of 3,760 U.S. ![]()
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