Front Runners and the Media

We need to ask ourselves a major question when we are talking about the primaries. Is it a good thing to be a front runner? This is actually a loaded question, more so then one would realize. Yes being a front runner has its advantages like, "hey, people are actually going to vote for me!", but with the good comes the bad. As a front runner the media and citizens generally tend to target you as a viable news story. Front runners need to be consistent due to the fact they are always in the spot light. Positions taken up in say NH need to be consistent with those taken up in say Florida. Finally, front runners are always being judged by the media and their chances at winning. This leads to the factor that front runners need to do better then everyone expected in order to combat the mundane news coverage that they received else their victory would be short lived and they would lose all the positive momentum they would have gained from the early primaries if they had not been front runners.