Shocking News Of The Day: Christine O’Donnell Is 2010′s Most Covered Candidate

by Hillary Busis | 2:35 pm, November 2nd, 2010

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Though Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell will, in all likelihood, be denied the title of senator tonight, Yahoo News reports that she’s already been won a different honorific: the designation of 2010′s Most Covered Candidate.

Michael Calderone writes that Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has discovered that in the past few months, O’Donnell “vaulted from zero national name recognition to garnering more coverage than any other 2010 candidate”—even though she’s declined to make many appearances in the national media. Specifically:

The PEJ tracks news coverage from 52 news outlets across five platforms—broadcast networks, cable news networks, online outlets, newspapers and talk radio. The nonpartisan organization looked back at all election stories from the beginning of the year through Oct. 31 and tallied those in which the 2010 candidate was the lead newsmaker, featured in more than half the story.

President Obama was most often the lead newsmaker in stories focusing on the 2010 election.

Christine O’Donnell tops 2010 midterm coverageBut O’Donnell ranked first among 2010 candidates. She was lead newsmaker in 160 stories, a remarkable number considering that most of the stories appeared in just the past two months.

To anyone who owns a computer or a television, this news shouldn’t be surprising. O’Donnell has given the media so much material that we would be shocked if Pew had named anyone else 2010′s most oft-mentioned candidate.

Meg Whitman made Pew’s list as O’Donnell’s runner-up; she’s followed by Rand Paul (mistakenly called “Paul Rand” in the bar graph at left), Joe Sestak, and Sharron Angle (whose name is also misspelled). Interestingly, Sestak is the only Democrat to make the top five. Read more about Pew’s study at Yahoo.

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Donald-Kershayn/100001763378963 Donald Kershayn

Christine O’Donnell is to my home state of Delaware what Rick “Mr. Megafraud” Scott is to my adopted state of Florida. Both are fringe folks who, in more normal times, would be shunned. Ms. O’Donnell has no knowledge of government, the Constitution, or history. Neither does Mr. Scott, but he has $60 million of his own money to buy the election with. Those of you native Delawarians of a certain age will understand when I say that, sadly, Delaware has no more men of the caliber as J. Caleb Boggs (R) or J Allen Frear (D).

Anyway, Ms. O’Donnell may not win the election, but she certainly won the lottery. She will now be able to become a “celebrity” in the same manner as her mentor, Mayor Sarah Palin. Both are all glitz, but no brains. Tell me, is this the best that the Republican party can muster?? If so, I feel sorry for us all.
felixw

This is no surprise at all. The leftwing media picks stories based on which ones make for sarcastic one-liners and putdowns. Meanwhile, the real important stories — unemployment, combat deaths in Afghanistan, problems on the border — are buried in the news if they reflect poorly on the the great leader Obama. So they ran stories on O’Donnell day after day, week after week, ad nauseam. This is one of the reasons why the Democrats will get trounced in the election today. They have all become comedians, and the voters want leaders with gravitas and a sense of reality.
tatboy

Thank Gawd the MSM covered everything I never wanted to know about a candidate that had no chance of winning.
Nachi

Murcuhns don’t git no brigher’n that!!