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Subject: Which candidates dominated the media primary over the years?

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Date Posted: Wed December 16, 2015 18:54:45

RACE MOST-COVERED CANDIDATE SECOND-MOST COVERED RATIO
1984 Democratic Jesse Jackson (33%) Walter Mondale (22%) 1.5
1988 Democratic Gary Hart (36%) Jesse Jackson (21%) 1.8
1988 Republican George H.W. Bush (41%) Bob Dole (23%) 1.8
1992 Democratic Douglas Wilder (40%) Bob Kerrey (17%) 2.3
1996 Republican Bob Dole (69%) Phil Gramm (10%) 6.7
2000 Democratic Al Gore (70%) Bill Bradley (30%) 2.3
2000 Republican George W. Bush (72%) John McCain (16%) 4.5
2004 Democratic Howard Dean (40%) Wesley Clark (19%) 2.1
2008 Democratic Hillary Clinton (45%) Barack Obama (27%) 1.7
2008 Republican Rudy Giuliani (24%) Mitt Romney (24%) 1.0
2012 Republican Rick Perry (37%) Mitt Romney (22%) 1.7
2016 Democratic Hillary Clinton (77%) Bernie Sanders (20%) 3.8
2016 Republican Donald Trump (54%) Jeb Bush (8%) 6.3

Since July, Trump has received 54 percent of the media coverage of the GOP primary � about six times more than Jeb Bush, who�s in second place with just 8 percent of coverage.

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