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Democrats Independents Republicans Makes them better informed citizens 62% 48% 55% Covers issues of interest well 61% 44% 55 Helps them decide where they stand [...]

Democrats Independents Republicans Trust information a lot 30% 12% 8% Keeps them very well informed on important issues 38% 14% 20% News is very accurate [...]

Democrats Independents Republicans Keeps political leaders from doing their job 17% 31% 59% Keeps political leaders from doing things that shouldn’t be done 81% 66% [...]

Democrats Independents Republicans About right 78% 63% 63% Too liberal 9% 26% 33% Too conservative 12% 10% 4%  

Democrats Independents Republicans Very/somewhat easy 63% 53% 42% Very/somewhat difficult 22% 31% 48% It doesn’t matter to me 15% 16% 10%  

Democrats Independents Republicans Very good value 45% 41% 30% Fair value 44% 40% 47% Somewhat/very overpriced 10% 17% 20%  

Democrats and Republicans follow news in similar ways Democrats Independents Republicans Get news multiple times a day 72% 61% 71% Actively seek out news 68% [...]

However, partisans hold different attitudes about the media and follow different news outlets Democrats Independents Republicans Get news from Fox News 7% 16% 40% Get [...]

Democrats Independents Republicans Paid source 73% 56% 53% Free source 56% 38% 40%  

Democrats Independents Republicans At least moderately likely to pay for free source 34% 24% 19% At least moderately likely to pay for free source if [...]