It will come as no surprise that in July of this year, when he first surged in the national polls, Donald Trump received a substantial amount of media coverage. As the clear front-runner for the GOP nomination at that time — polling ahead of all others with between 20 and 30 percent of the vote — one would expect he received more coverage than any of the others.

What one might not expect is that during that month, Trump got more than twice as much coverage as all of the other Republican hopefuls combined.