Which of the following best describes the role that the popularity of newspapers played in the success of the federalist papers? as newspapers became more popular, they were distributed in europe. this the federalists gain foreign support for their cause. as their support grew, some european countries sent the federalists money to them get the constitution passed. newspapers had become more popular and were printed daily. because of this, several of the federalists' essays were printed each week. anti-federalists had little time to come up with good arguments against the essays because so many were written so quickly. newspapers grew in popularity. they were published daily and in all the states. the federalist papers appeared in newspapers in every state. because so many people saw them, support for the constitution grew. the federalist papers were actually first published in a bound volume. the essays themselves did not appear in the newspapers, but word of them did.