Reply #254: Might be because the media prominently discussed each of the Palin tweets, while

[karynnj]

Democratic leaders, other than the President, are covered only if the RW has distilled a sentence or two that can be twisted if they frame it correctly.

Look at your own Boston papers. The Boston Globe, the "good" paper, wrote their article on the small business tax as something similar to Brown votes against the bill. If you read the article, you would find that the former Small Business chair, Kerry, wrote a few of the provisions and that the bill passed. In addition to the title, more prominence was given to Brown's lame reason for voting "no" than to a description of what the bill did or what Kerry said. Now, this would make sense had the bill failed. The newsworthy part then would be that the bill failed - and if it failed by one vote - Brown's vote and reason.

In addition, Brown's every sneeze in the state is covered and most Kerry visits - even when he has extensive meetings aren't. (I know this because I do look at his web page's PR releases and at google.