Did you read my post at all? I never said CNN did a good job and I never said they did it correctly. Money does correlate with popularity, that's a proven statistical fact, and if you're going to argue with that then you're just naive. Who do you think people give their money to? People donate to people they like. People who get money from people who like them have more money to advertise and gain new followers. It's a cycle that you'll learn about when you take a political science class.