Does an increase in attention from the media, like we’ve generally seen this cycle surrounding a presidential hopeful’s campaign launch, correspond with a boost in a candidate’s popularity in the polls? At FiveThirtyEight, we’ve looked at how much kickoff coverage candidates have gotten on the big three cable TV news networks, as well as how they fared in surveys after they got into the race. But we were curious whether there was a connection between the two — did the candidates who experienced a post-kickoff polling bump first get a bump in media coverage because of their launch? CONT.
Laura Bronner, FiveThirtyEight