Google News Democratic Primary Poll for 11/14/2003

		This Week (11/14)			Last Week (11/7)
1	Howard Dean	7530	22.3%	+3.7	1	6380	18.7%
2	John Kerry	6060	18.0%	+0.8	2	5860	17.2%
3	Wesley Clark	4630	13.6%	+0.9	4	4390	12.9%
4	John Edwards	4310	12.8%	-0.5	3	4540	13.3%
5	Dick Gephardt	3380	10.0%	-0.6	6	3630	10.6%
6	Joe Lieberman	3280	9.7%	-1.1	5	3690	10.8%
7	Al Sharpton	1910	5.7%	-0.4	8	2070	6.1%
8	Dennis Kucinich	1730	5.1%	-1.8	7	2370	6.9%
9	Carol Moseley Braun	878	2.6%	-1.0	9	1220	3.6%

Dean shoots back up with coverage on the confederate flag flap, the announcement that he is opting out of the campaign finance system and the SEIU and AFSCME endorsements. His media share this week (22.3%) is an all time high for any candidate in the Google News Poll. Dean's jump siphoned off coverage from most of the rest of the field, excepting Kerry and Clark, who probably got a lot of their coverage in stories that were talking about Dean's march to the nomination.

As an aside, I find it interesting that Kerry continues to have such a high share level compared to Gephardt. I consider Gephardt to be a much more serious threat to Dean than Kerry (who I think has already passed the point of no return). Gephardt easily has the second best ground operation out there and he is holding his own against Dean in Iowa. Yet the media appears to be ignoring Dick in favor of John. I wonder why?

The following is a chart of the Google News Media Share over the last few months:

(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 get different results as the numbers are constantly changing. I make absolutely no claim that these numbers have any real meaning.)