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Jim's right about the money angle. That's reinforced by media dynamics; Matt Yglesias complained recently that "the national media... simply decided unilaterally some years ago to only cover people who were already famous." There's something to that, though I don't think the press corps has become derelict in a vacuum; campaign finance regulations have made it harder to break through, which makes it rational to focus on the candidates who are already prominent.