Did media overhype Fiorina's surge?

[weixiaobao]

From the last 3 national polls that solely in October.  Fiorina is way below Trump, Carson, Rubio/Bush.  She is fighting Cruz of 5th and 6th place.  Funnily Reuters, Morning Consult, and PPP came out about the same time period all put her at 6%.

So what exactly transpire since the last debate that Rubio had overtaken her?  Which attacks on her that stuck?

Favorability wise Fiorina - 57/27, she still doing very well.  So it meant that she is still among people's 2nd and 3rd choice.

[weixiaobao]

Both of her surges were kind of similar: she jumped way up in the polls after an impressive debate performance, and then started declining slowly after that.

Base on my average, and I am not a statistician (I did via proportional to sample size of each polls).  # may not add up due to rounding.

Pre 1st debate----------- 1.7%
Post 1st debate---------- 6.8% (+5.1%)
Prior to 2nd debate------ 3.1% (-3.8%)
Post 2nd debate--------- 9.6% (+6.5%)
October #s--------------- 6% --(-3.6%)