After paying heightened attention to national politics in 2020 (42%) and 2021 (38%), the percentage of Americans reporting they follow news about national politics “very closely” has dipped to 32% — a more normal reading for nonelection years.
Still, the public continues to pay greater attention to politics than it did in the 1990s and early 2000s, when less than 30% were tuned in. Since 2006, the level of very close attention being paid to national political news has not fallen below 30%.
