NYT discovers seminal rule of journalism

Here is a story published in the New York Times that more or less discovers that candidates who do better than expected get more media attention. To which most journalists would say: "And?"  It's an old joke that a dog biting a man isn't news. If the man bites the dog, well that's different. So candidates who are not expected to do well rightly, it seems, get a lot of attention if they surprise us all and win. It would be news if they didn't. As always, we invite comment. .