Although the media and political elites in Washington greeted President Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey with mass hysteria, the rest of the country is far less concerned, according to a new NBC-WSJ poll.

Since Trump announced his decision to fire Comey Tuesday, hyperbolic allegations have flown that the president obstructed justice, engaged in a cover-up, undermined the credibility of the FBI, and even engaged in Nixon-style taping of conversations. But the NBC-WSJ poll, released Sunday, found 32 percent of Americans don’t even have an opinion of the Comey firing.

“What are you actually covering? Are you covering who’s up and who’s down in the West Wing … or are you covering what impacts Americans?”

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“That 32 percent of Americans don’t have an opinion of the Comey firing shows that this story isn’t resonating in the rest of America the way it is in D.C.,” Axios co-founder Mike Allen wrote Sunday. “And while a plurality believe he wanted to slow the Russia probe, those are largely people who disapproved of Trump in the first place, leaving his approval rating essentially unchanged.”

NBC News reporter Mark Murray noted that the poll, which was conducted May 11-13 among 800 adults following Trump’s dismissal of Comey, “doesn’t show a significant change in the president’s overall standing.”

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Despite the deluge of controversy spewing out of Washington, Trump’s job-approval rating only slipped one point, to 39 percent, from where it was just a month ago in the same poll. Murray noted that the president’s numbers are “mostly unchanged from last month’s 39 percent positive/50 percent negative score.”

Forty-one percent of Americans still say they have a “great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence in their new president, while 57 percent say they have little to no confidence in Trump — which, Murray noted once again, is “mostly unchanged from April’s poll.”

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After several days of media hype and rampant speculation in Washington, 61 percent of Americans said Comey’s firing has done nothing to change their opinions of Trump, while 30 percent said they now view the president more negatively.

Of those polled, 37 percent said they voted for Trump while 40 percent indicated they had voted for Clinton.

The new NBC-WSJ poll follows a little over two weeks since an ABC News-Washington Post poll found that 67 percent of Americans view the Democratic Party as “out of touch” with the people’s concerns. And of the Democrats themselves, 44 percent said they believed their Party was “out of touch.” Sixty-two percent of that poll’s respondents also viewed the Republican Party as “out of touch.”

While so many average Americans are concerned about jobs, the economy and national security interests, Washington and the media largely have opted instead to focus exclusively on controversies such as the unproven possibility of Trump-team collusion with Russian hackers during the 2016 election.

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway mocked the media Sunday for acting like the ouster of the FBI director was such a shock, when signs abounded he should be removed.

“The fact is, as they work on the 20th palace-intrigue personnel story of this young administration, they totally missed the firing of Jim Comey coming,” Conway said on Fox News’ “Media Buzz.”

“What are you actually covering? Are you covering who’s up and who’s down in the West Wing, which you would know nothing about,” Conway quipped, “or are you covering what impacts Americans?”