What you need to know about election stress disorder.
With five tiresome months to go before November, voters are already drained from the campaigns. Six in ten US adults (62%) report election fatigue, according to Pew Research. This is slightly higher than the study showed in the last two elections, with 59% of voters depleted by June and July of 2016 and 61% of voters exhausted by October 2020.
The survey also shows that Democrats and Republicans are almost evenly divided when it comes to election fatigue, with 66% of Dems and 58% of Republicans feeling the effects. The Pew study also indicated a correlation between how closely voters followed the news and their level of weariness. Perhaps surprisingly, voters who followed the news closely were less fatigued: only 40% of close followers compared to 77% of people not…
