I think this comes from too many national media people viewing all issues as just a low-stakes spat between the political elites, our nation's cool kids in their minds. That their job is just to gossip about who is talkin shit about what, who got dumped, who's going to prom with who.
Right, and what is the downside to the Democrat here? It's not like the media going to pull all those "Democrats are responsible for these good things" stories in response.