From October, after McCain had fired 150 staffers and was in debt with no contributions coming in and remember, at this point, McCain was polling 12% nationally and in a downward spiral for a year.:
In November:
Stories like the following one appeared to be prophetic to McCain's soon-to-be rise of 21 points in the polls, due to no apparent reason, as his campaign prepared to borrow $3million just to get through December. I defy anyone to explain that sudden rise in media, followed by the rise in the polls, followed by a win in NH.
Media attention isn't explained by any of the BS reasons given in these threads by posters like abe. First the pundits said RP got no attention because he didn't register in double digits in any polls. Then they said it was because he didn't have any money. When he out raised everyone in the 4th quarter and polled in double digits, he still got no media.
RP won the majority of straw polls nationally, won every debate by every polling method, raised the most of any R in the 4th quarter, was the only candidate to increase donations every quarter of '07, received more donations from troops than all candidates combined, had a blimp, drew crowds to his rallies second only to Obama/Oprah, dominated Digg, Myspace, You Tube, the blogosphere, Facebook and Meetup, and won a miraculous 10% in Iowa, yet he finished at the bottom of the media coverage charts every month for a year.
People who seek lame BS to justify the media blackout bring a stench of denial and wannabe pundit to these forums, the likes of which I've never seen before in any forum.
Bosso
