D e s e r t E x p o s u r e
March
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. Ever the optimists when it comes to our bearded governor, we've started tracking mentions of him for US secretary of state.
- (#1 last month) Gov. Bill Richardson — 4,485 hits (down)
- (3) New Mexico Senate race — 394 hits (down)
- (6) X Prize — 301 hits (up)
- (7) Sen. Pete Domenici — 268 hits (up)
- (2) Virgin Galactic — 172 hits (down)
- (9) Sen. Jeff Bingaman — 112 hits (up)
- (4) New Mexico illegal immigration — 94 hits (down)
- (-) Gov. Bill Richardson + secretary of state — 84 hits *
- (5) Gov. Bill Richardson + vice president — 82 hits (down)
- (10) New Mexico spaceport — 60 hits (up)
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