It still makes me leery. I suspect you’re right. But wasn’t it Chuck Todd himself who said something in a round table of his fellow “journalists” that the more they talk about Trump the stronger he gets?
They’re still talking about him, and he’s seemingly getting stronger. I even saw, just saw a post at the Independent Journal Review that said the previous upside down favorability ratings for Trump are now right side up-at least in Iowa. More people in Iowa now view him favorably than unfavorably.
So really there’s only two options here. Either the media isn’t that stressed out by the thought of a Trump presidency because there’s some aspect of it they still don’t take seriously-which is actually still my theory.
Or, he is indeed that much in their heads and even though they know they shouldn’t give him so much free publicity, they can’t help but do so.
I truly do hope if he is in fact elected that it’s the latter and not the former.
It wasn’t like this in the beginning. They were all making fun of him. I suspect they think he has a good chance of winning and they want to play nice with the future president if they don’t want locked out of interviews. Remember the Des Moines Register dust up? He goes after them with a venegeance and they are helpless.
There is a third option. Ratings.