Google News Democratic Primary Poll for 1/2/2004

		This Week (1/2)			Last Week (12/26)
1	Howard Dean	9700	25.9%	+0.3	1	8980	25.5%
2	John Kerry	5270	14.1%	+0.0	2	4960	14.1%
3	Wesley Clark	5070	13.5%	-0.5	3	4920	14.0%
5	Joe Lieberman	4580	12.2%	+0.0	4	4280	12.2%
5	Dick Gephardt	4040	10.8%	+0.0	5	3780	10.8%
6	John Edwards	3940	10.5%	+0.4	6	3570	10.2%
7	Al Sharpton	1910	5.1%	-0.3	7	1910	5.4%
8	Dennis Kucinich	1910	5.1%	+0.1	8	1760	5.0%
9	Carol Moseley Braun	1050	2.8%	+0.0	9	996	2.8%

The first poll of 2004 shows pretty much the same as the last poll of 2003. I'll keep crunching the numbers, but I don't expect any real changes here before the Iowa Caucuses (barring unforeseen circumstances).

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.)