Trump is getting like 90% more coverage than his poll numbers warrant. Ted Cruz is getting like 60% less coverage than his poll numbers. Trump has been getting a free ride based on his reality TV star persona. That is still not stopping Cruz from his recent rise in the polls though.
At first he got lots, but I watch Fox and CNN every day, and the last couple months they rarely show him at all. If they talk about him it’s slamming him for something he said (or didn’t really say). They spend more time on Kasich and Christie who seem to be on every other day.
Trump is getting like 90% more coverage than his poll numbers warrant. Ted Cruz is getting like 60% less coverage than his poll numbers. Trump has been getting a free ride based on his reality TV star persona. That is still not stopping Cruz from his recent rise in the polls though.
Yep -- most of the time, as in a recent story where Trump called Rove a "total moron," Cruz is totally ignored and only names like Rubio, Carson, and Graham are mentioned.
Trump's name is a household word for only ONE reason: he self-promoted himself to celebrity status. That's great in a showman entertainer, my hat's off to him -- over the course of roughly 10 years, through a well-executed plan of media campaigns publicizing the "genius" behind his great hotels and casinos, and then seven years hosting his own hit reality TV show (up until 2013), he made himself the kind of guy guaranteed to get lots of coverage no matter what he does.
Indeed, before he seriously got into politics, everybody already had the image of "brilliant genius businessman" firmly branded in their minds as to what Trump is. Great things in a businessman -- worrisome and risky in ANY newly-converted politician seeking the top office in the land, and that would be true no matter WHAT party he belonged to.
In actual context of his "genius businessman" image, Trump is outdone by more than TEN DOZEN billionaires most people have never heard of whose business success and savvy so outshines Trump's that they are worth 4, 5, and even 20 times MORE than Trump's relatively paltry $3.9 billion.
That's not to knock Trump's success or business savvy. It IS to point out that the ONLY reason Trump is a celebrity is because he is a businessman with a flair for showmanship. He's not famous because of his politics or his business savvy -- he's famous because he set about making himself famous in a Pop Culture kind of way.
So he gets a lot more media attention than a mere actually conservative politician such as Ted Cruz.
Beware, America. Voting for self-promoted pop icons as President, even when they are in the Republican party, is a bad idea.