Why were people writing Fetterman off so bluntly near the end?

[Sestak]

I think there could be a potential for some interesting anaylsis on how pundits or places like this forum perceive races that the media "gets bored of" in the closing weeks of the election.

In this case, the media decided that after the debate there wasn't much more here to get interested in, and they quickly were drawn to (and this forum followed them to) shinier objects in Nevada, Arizona, and Florida as we began to get early vote counts plus Kari Lake being Kari Lake. I think people just started to assume that "since we haven't heard anything, what was happening must be continuing to happen" and assumed that Oz had since fully closed the gap and taken a slight but notable lead. Didn't help, of course, that the fake polls completely mirrored this idea as well.