54% of Republicans said they believe the Capitol insurrection is getting too much attention, a new P

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Pew survey shows

Over half of Republicans and Republican-leaning adults said they believe the Capitol riots are getting too much attention, according to a new Pew Research Center survey on Americans' views on the January 6 insurrection.

In the poll, 54% of Republicans said they think too much attention is being paid to the riots, while 33% said they think the right amount of attention is paid and 11% thought that too little attention is being paid.

Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning respondents, 40% think too little attention is being paid to the deadly violence and only 8% think the riots are receiving too much attention.

And among all Americans surveyed, 27% think too little attention is being paid to the riots, 44% said they think about the right amount of attention is being paid to them, and 28% believe too much attention is being paid.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/54-republicans-said-believe-capitol-202035962.html

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. I agree with them. We need

to focus on real threats. Such as the baby raping demons that have crossed into our world through a tear in our dimensional fabric......

[Bluethroughu]

3. Lol...

Thanks for the clarity of 28%...

[Nexus2]

12. Is that how Fox is describing immigration now? [nt]

[11 Bravo]

30. Focus, damnit! Mr. Potato Head had his dick chopped off ... or something.

Let's address the truly important shit!

[Deuxcents]

2. Personally

We can never, ever stop reporting about this. Having said that.. the previous poster put a smile on for me

[Claire Oh Nette]

4. But, Bengazi!!

When the GOP pours as much time an d money into investigating this as they did that, then they can start to whine about excessive coverage.

Nah, not even then.

[NCjack]

26. Yes, I want "Benghazi" style hearing on the insurrection. NOW!

[Claire Oh Nette]

27. Or a Whitewater style...

Fishing expeditions are perfectly OK, Investigations of investigations of investigations are ok,ybut investigations of insurrection plotted and executed in real time in broad daylight? Nah...

IOKIRAR


bastards. Treason. Every last one.

[machoneman]

5. But her emails!

[gratuitous]

6. Gee five people died, the Capitol was overrun by a bunch of incontinent yahoos

But let's not dwell on it, because we can't really blame the Democrats for it. Sure, there are sitting members of both houses of Congress who were on the side of the insurrectionists, but it makes them feel bad to bring up their mob's failure. Let's just agree that everyone made mistakes and move on. What do you mean you didn't make any mistakes, Democrats? Everyone makes mistakes! Democrats think they're better than God now!

[WarGamer]

7. they're gonna' hate the '22 and '24 campaign ads, then... lol

[lagomorph777]

16. Ohhhh, yeah....

[OldBaldy1701E]

31. BINGO! (n/t)

[oasis]

8. Russia, impeachments, insurrection. Nothing to see here. Let's move on.

Riiiiiiight.

[brush]

9. Of course they do. If my party was responsible for a failed insurrection...

against my own country, I wouldn't want to talk/hear about it either.

[PortTack]

10. Beat me to it!! A page from the deposed idiot king's playbook...

[Cha]

11. Tough Shit.. Ashamed? It needs

MORE ATTENTIION, MFs.

[Maine-i-ac]

13. Related news: 54% of cockroaches do not like the flashlight. They would like it turned off. nt

(further subtext unneeded)

[spanone]

14. Is that the percentage of republicons being indicted?

[bdamomma]

36. Exactly

they need to rounded up and indicted. Russian assets doing Putin's work, to decimate democracy.

[lagomorph777]

15. Fuck 'em. Seriously. I don't give a shit what Qpublicans think.

They are the enemy; the only thing that matters is to get them out of the way and save the country.

[maliaSmith]

17. GOP sad

We want a full investigation and punishment for the traitors and insurrectionists including all involved including elected officials, police or military. GOP don't want it disclosed who was involved. I wonder if SCOTUS wife, Ginny Thomas will get charged, or anyone else that helped fund the insurrection.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

18. Breaking news 46% of repubs believe Antifa caused Jan 6th and some have proof

they say that fox told them so...

[Progressive Jones]

19. Nobody who matters cares what Republicans think. nt

[Martin68]

20. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, snicker, snicker. Well, of course they think it's getting too much attention.

How very awkward for them. Particularly the ones who supported and enabled the insurrection against the United States of America. I've noticed that some of my Trumplican acquaintances on FB are very reluctant to discuss the events of Jan 6.

[twodogsbarking]

21. Sounds something the orange slime

would say.

[WyattKansas]

22. Until all the Republican mother fuckers own what they did, fuck everyone who voted for Republicans!

And there had damn well better be round the clock coverage of EVERYTHING Republicans did to break the law the last four years, until all of their Republican disorder, destruction, frauds, and lawlessness for several decades have been sanitized from ALL of Government across the nation.

Let them own the shit stain that they are!

[OldBaldy1701E]

32. Hear Hear! (n/t)

[The Jungle 1]

23. New trump hat: Make America treasonous again

Never never let this event be forgotten.
The republican party is forever the party of treason.

[Generic Other]

24. I am giving them as much attention as possible

They deserve the recognition.

[kentuck]

25. In other words...

54% of Republicans agree with the insurrectionists.

[Grins]

28. Too little? How about Voter suppression in Texas, Georgia, Arizona, al-Abama, Florida, Wisconsin....

More than 250 bills proposed and FAR TOO LITTLE discussion of that. (Thanks, media!)

Why do you suppose the REPUBLICANS, who made the current voting laws they are now trying to overturn, did that? Qui buono...?

[LiberalFighter]

29. I guess we need to do more about this.

[ProfessorGAC]

33. I'm Not Seeing This As Negatively As Others

44% had an opinion that it was properly covered, or not covered enough.
44% of REPUBLICANS!
These seem the sort of numbers that would motivate the media to continue to cover heavily, since in aggregate nearly 70% of people think the attention is adequate or needs to be more intense.
Typically in these bifurcation polls, the Rs are far more lockstep in their views. 54:46 among Rs is good news, not bad news!

[OldBaldy1701E]

34. What I learned today

27% of Americans are paying attention to what is going on in their own freaking country, and 28% of Americans had some stake in the insurrection that happened on Jan. 6th. No honest American can deny or ignore what happened, nor the ramifications of said. If one does, then one had some involvement in it. Now, think about this. Out of the current population of 331 million Americans, around 91 million feel there is 'too much attention' being paid. Scary, eh?

[ancianita]

38. That's the most concerning statistic, because only 246,200,000 are voting age adults,

after you subtract 74.2 million under 18 children and 10 million immigrants.

We can claim we don't care about what Repukes think in polls, but it's the general American population polled that is really the story here, imo.

That 91 million number happens to be the same figure of adults who did not vote in 2020. Not the exact polled, of course, but still an interesting coincidence.

It means that too many adults are either too tied up in their lives (34.0 million live in poverty) to see what's happening, and/or they have too short of attention spans, or too many feel too helpless, or too many are sick, or a combination of all those. Which doesn't bode well for them, or for the 84.2 million people who just can't vote; and both groups, through our winning, we're trying to represent.

It is scary, yes. It shows the real burden that I can now really see on Biden's face.

Hannity's wrong, stupid and evil. That's not old age on Joe. That's the Jesus-in-Gethsemane look on Joe.

[OldBaldy1701E]

40. Some people are fed up

with politics in general. They are not going to do anything because they feel completely shut out of the government, mainly because they wanted something different. I will not go into the specifics of what they wanted, but they did want something else. Add that number to those who, to quote Alfred Pennyworth, 'Just want to watch the world burn', but are not going to aid that outcome. Apathy and bloated self-worth are two big things to overcome. We might be able to change the apathy.... I doubt we will change the pomposity that plagues our country.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

35. No surprise there. It was their prez, their party! Sure

there's crazy shame. And wishes to downplay it. Duh

[ailsagirl]

37. They would. Anyone surprised??

[Xipe Totec]

39. The party of Benghazi thinks we're obsessing. nt