The media did create a frenzy—but it took STUPID conservative voters to buy the kool-aid they were peddling.
You’re right, conservatives didn’t stick together in big enough numbers to prevent the Dems. from taking over.
I’m still frustrated about that macaca thing. It wasn’t even a real word, so the MSM had to define it for people. Then they had to take people by the hand and say that macaca was a racial/ethnic slur, and whip people into a frenzy about that fact.
The other untold story about the George Allen campaign in 2006 is that he had a narrow lead on election night up until 90% of the vote was counted in Virginia. Then suddely, things turned around with the last 10% of the votes to be counted, and Webb eeked out a 7,000+ vote victory statewide. I have yet to this day to see anything in the MSM about the vote count irregularities in Virginia in that election.
This is the same MSM that swears that Bush stole the 2004 election in Ohio where he won by 100,000 votes statewide.