D e s e r t E x p o s u r e
July
2008
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. With the Pearce-Udall shootout set, our hot US Senate race shoots up in coverage. Plus veep speculation runs wild!
- (#1 last month) Gov. Bill Richardson — 3,968 hits (up)
- (3) New Mexico Senate race — 2,457 hits (up)
- (2) Sen. Pete Domenici — 835 hits (down)
- (8) Gov. Bill Richardson + vice president — 586 hits (up)
- (4) Sen. Jeff Bingaman — 469 hits (up)
- (-) Senate candidate Rep. Tom Udall — 426 hits (up)
- (-) Senate candidate Rep. Steve Pearce — 407 hits (up)
- (5) New Mexico Border Patrol — 244 hits (up)
- (-) Gov. Bill Richardson + secretary of state — 192 hits (up)
- (7) Virgin Galactic — 125 hits (up)