Which Democratic Candidate Gets the Most News Coverage?
A Data Analysis of the 2020 Presidential Contenders
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8 min readApr 18, 2019
In the 2016 primaries, one key to Donald Trump’s success was his ability to draw media attention. By some estimates, the obsessive, wall-to-wall coverage of his campaign provided the equivalent of 2 billion dollars of free advertising¹. In the era of Twitter and 24-hour news, it’s…
