Google News Democratic Primary Poll for 1/30/2004

		This Week (1/30)			Last Week (1/23)
1	Howard Dean	19500	22.2%	-0.7	1	16000	22.9%
2	John Kerry	17400	19.8%	-0.7	2	14300	20.5%
3	John Edwards	16000	18.2%	+0.0	3	12700	18.2%
4	Wesley Clark	11700	13.3%	-0.4	4	9570	13.7%
5	Joe Lieberman	10200	11.6%	+0.5	5	7760	11.1%
6	Dennis Kucinich	6910	7.9%	+0.1	6	5450	7.8%
7	Al Sharpton	6160	7.0%	+1.3	7	4000	5.7%

Well, Joe didn't drop out as I expected. Maybe next week?

Media coverage is settling into its new pattern, though I'm sure that most of the coverage of Kerry is more positive than that of Dean. This may be the last saving grace that Dean will have from now on out. He still has the media's eye on him and if he can manage to turn things around he will not be ignored.

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.)