Election Weekend News Interest Hits 20-Year High

The final Pew Research Center Weekly News Interest Index of the campaign finds that as the long presidential campaign wound down last week, the public remained highly engaged. Fully 60% of registered voters said they were following campaign news very closely, while 28% said they were following fairly closely. That is the highest level of voter interest just before a presidential election since the Pew Research Center began tracking campaign news interest in 1988.