The Tumbleweeds Top 10
Who and what's been making news from New Mexico this past month, as measured by mentions in Google News (news.google.com), which tracks 4,500 worldwide news sources (trends noted are vs. last month's total hits; * indicates new to the list). Number in parenthesis indicates last month's Top 10 rank. As we predicted last month, cockfighting cracks the list again, at number 8. Sen. Domenici took the steam out of our "Domenici Retirement Watch," however, by announcing he'll run again in 2008. So we've turned our attention, just for fun, to tracking mentions of Gov. Richardson as the 2008 vice presidential nominee—the job he swears he's not running for.
1. (#1 last month) Gov. Bill Richardson—5,372 hits (down)
2. (2) Gov. Bill Richardson + 2008—2,915 hits (down)
3. (5) Sen. Jeff Bingaman—952 hits (up)
4. (3) Gov. Bill Richardson + New Hampshire—922 hits (down)
5. (-) Gov. Bill Richardson + vice president—667 hits*
6. (4) Sen. Pete Domenici—542 hits (up)
7. (7) Virgin Galactic—451 hits (up)
8. (-) New Mexico cockfighting—447 hits (up)
9. (6) New Mexico illegal immigration—393 hits (up)
10. (10) New Mexico Border Patrol—194 hits (up)
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