Poll: People Aren’t Really Paying Attention to Hillary Email Story

To say that Republicans are more interested than Democrats in the story of former Secretary of State and likely 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton‘s emails would be to say that the sky is blue and the snow is melting in Washington, D.C. right now.

But a new Pew Research Center poll shows that only 16 percent of Democrats are actually following the story that has engulfed the political world since it broke last week — and Americans are actually paying more attention to last week’s other big stories.

Even more astounding is the fact that a minority of Republicans are following the story — just 34 percent, according to the poll. And just four percent of people under the age of 30 paid attention to it.

In fact, out of all the important stories that made news last week, the Clinton emails story ranked second-to-last. News about the economy, the Department of Justice’s report on Ferguson, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s address to Congress, and the Supreme Court’s Obamacare arguments trumped the email reports. The only major story that was not as closely followed as Clinton’s emails was the Boston Marathon bombing trial.

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