“Do you think he has not been on the news more than other? I believe he has had the same if not more.”
No, I think the news coverage REALLY hurt Thompson. Many stories lately have been about the “Top Three” candidates (McCain, Huck and Romney) with no mention of Thompson. There were also lots more fluff pieces on those candidates.
Thompson got comparatively little coverage, and a lot of that had a “look how bad he’s doing” slant. If all the media does is say a candidate is losing, it’s hard to change that momentum. Also, the constant trumpeting of polls hurts everyone but the frontrunner.
Interesting take, but I watch alot of Fox news and other news shows and I saw him on quite a bit. He always got to say what he wanted to say. I still think his biggest mistake was not doing what Romney did and get all the news agencies together and give a major speech on Federalism like Romney did for Religion. That would have gotten Fred noticed big time. If I was his campaign manager I would have done that a week after Romney and put it out there in a way that EVERYONE understood. Occasionally Fred would explain something that the average American did not comprehend and that did not help much.
I think that in this day and age there should be a law against the media deciding who is the frontrunner etc. No one knows who is going to win until the votes are cast. How many people (the apathetic voter)voted for a candidate because they heard on TV he would be the winner? I'm old enough to remember when the election cycle didn't start until after the first of the year that the actual election was held. This time is started almost the day after GW was sworn in for his second term. Disgusting.
What is even more disgusting is the ignorance of the American public...they are too busy playing with their Xboxes to find out what the candidates believe in and actually go and vote. I guess we get what we deserve.
“The news coverage REALLY hurt Thompson.”
Yup. That sort of unfair media coverage doomed Bill Richardson, too. /s
This is very true. It is a part, a significant part, of why Fred did not do better.
We can prove this by comparing how many stories were written or comments were spoken about how badly John Edwards was doing, and how his campaign was dead, and how he needs to drop out. I haven't found any.