A strong majority of all Americans and roughly 70 percent of Democrats have largely tuned out of political news coverage since the November election. The post AP Poll: Majority of ‘Exhausted’ Americans Have Tuned Out Politics Since Election – Including 7 in 10 Democrats first appeared on Mediaite.

A post-election slump for fans of the losing candidate is not a new trend for networks that have become heavily identified for a partisan audience.

Everyone knows what is coming and we are just taking some time off.” Television ratings — and now a new poll — clearly illustrate the phenomenon. About two-thirds of American adults say they have recently felt the need to limit media consumption about politics and government because of overload,