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[karynnj]

115. If Kerry would have been given what the media usually gives all candidates, he would have won

Note that unlike ALL other candidates none of the networks did puff biographies of him. Consider how the media pushed how likable Ann was and said that Romney's bullying as a teen was not important.

Kerry, by all accounts, is a genuinely nice man and there are NONE of those stories and many where he went far out of his way to help people who would never be in positions to help him.

Deval Patrick, who was negative on the campaign seemed to get it right when he said the problem was that most people never were able to know Kerry, who he called an "uncommonly decent man"" The fact is that Kerry won his races in Massachusetts by winning people over via retail politics. He was not the party or media favorite when he ran for Senate the first time or for LT Governor - he beat their favorite. He also got less media and party support in 2004 than other candidates - he won by meeting people in Iowa and NH and winning those two races. Only then did he get much media attention - though at that point, many in the media were pushing the "sunny John Edwards". When Kerry won 5 of the 7 contests on the next election day - in states that should have favored a Southern, they STILL did not concede that he was very very likely the nominee. Cnn called it a big win for Kerry and a smaller one for Edwards. In fact, Edwards who won just SC should have seen this day as a negative as these were states that he should have won if he were to be the nominee.