Google News Democratic Poll for 6/11/2003

		This Week (6/11)			Last Week (6/4)
1	John Kerry	2490	16.1%	-0.8	1	2460	17.0%
2	Bob Graham	2280	14.8%	-0.8	2	2260	15.6%
3	Howard Dean	2140	13.9%	+0.6	4	1930	13.3%
4	Joe Lieberman	2130	13.8%	-0.8	3	2120	14.6%
5	John Edwards	2490	13.2%	0.0	5	1910	13.2%
6	Dick Gephardt	1740	11.3%	+1.2	6	1460	10.1%
7	Dennis Kucinich	1220	7.9%	+0.5	7	1070	7.4%
8	Al Sharpton	860	5.6%	-0.4	8	861	5.9%
9	Carol Moseley Braun	539	3.5%	+0.4	9	442	3.0%

Everybody's absolute numbers are up this week indicating increased news media attention on the campaign. Dean just barely retakes 3rd place from Lieberman. I've added something new this week: a percentage share of the total stories for each candidate as well as an indicator of how this value changed from the previous week. This measure indicates that Gephardt, Dean, Kucinich and Braun had the best week, in that order, as their total shares went up. Meanwhile Kerry, Graham, Lieberman and Sharpton slacked off while Edwards remained steady. (Methodology: All numbers are taken from the hit counts when searching on the Google News Service for news stories containing each candidate's name. Click on each name to rerun the search. You will likely get different results as the numbers are constantly changing. I make absolutely no claim that these numbers have any real meaning.)