With barely four weeks to go before the ballots are cast, Americans remain largely disinterested in the 2014 midterm elections, says the survey released by the Pew Research Center Wednesday.

The newest polls completed by Pew over the weekend suggest an underwhelming interest in the upcoming midterm elections among Americans with only 15 percent saying they are closely following midterms news.

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In addition, about one in four Americans are completely shrugging the issue off, a trend that has been ongoing throughout the year.

It is hard to tell why, but Pew offers some explanations.

Maybe, people no longer see partisan control of either chamber of Congress compelling, Pew said. It is also possible that significant news stories have crowded electoral talks out of Americans' attention.

Pew's survey indicates that Americans are more interested in the global spread of Ebola (36 percent), the anti-Islamic State airstrikes in the Middle East (31 percent), and the recent security blunders of the Secret Service agency (21 percent).

Earlier in the year, Americans tuned in to news of Russia's annexation of Crimea, the missing Malaysian jetliner saga, and the developments in Obama's health care law.

All in all, Pew thinks that without the national races and with only one-third of the country going to voting precincts in 27 days' time, midterm elections is not something that figures prominently in the lives of ordinary Americans.

Still, these numbers are worth noting since when compared with past data, they are, for whatever reason, significantly lower.

In 2006 and 2010 congressional races, nearly a quarter of the public was paying close attention, while in all eight surveys conducted this year interest in midterms media coverage hardly surpassed 16 percent.

Compared to issues of health and safety, midterm elections rarely keep Americans enthused. The general lack of interest in the elections may spell bad news for Senate candidates, particularly for the Democrats, who as of late, have been losing ground in the upper chamber, The Washington Post observed.

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