Google News Democratic Primary Poll for 11/21/2003

		This Week (11/21)			Last Week (11/14)
1	Howard Dean	7940	22.7%	+0.4	1	7530	22.3%
2	John Kerry	5780	16.6%	-1.4	2	6060	18.0%
3	Wesley Clark	4990	14.3%	+0.6	3	4630	13.6%
4	John Edwards	4460	12.8%	+0.0	4	4310	12.8%
5	Dick Gephardt	3480	10.0%	-0.1	5	3380	10.0%
6	Joe Lieberman	3230	9.2%	-0.5	6	3280	9.7%
7	Al Sharpton	2080	6.0%	+0.3	7	1910	5.7%
8	Dennis Kucinich	1890	5.4%	+0.3	8	1730	5.1%
9	Carol Moseley Braun	1070	3.1%	+0.5	9	878	2.6%

A relatively uneventful week as Dean continues to improve his lead and Kerry slips back down. Wesley Clark holds steady which, considering his need to generate excitement, is not a positive thing for his campaign. Right now in the Anybody-But-Dean race, if you aren't going up you are going down.

I'm still surprised at Gephardt's lackluster showing in the media considering the strength of his campaign compared to the rest of the not-Dean field. This may be an indication that organization will only get you so far if you don't have a compelling narrative. Dean's got the organization, but he also has the story.

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.)