D e s e r t E x p o s u r e September 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 Bill Richardson veep watch retired, thank goodness we have Virgin Galactic unveiling its space plane for Spaceport America!

(#1 last month) Gov. Bill Richardson — 3,161 hits (up)

(-) Virgin Galactic — 1,924 hits (up)

(2) New Mexico "battleground state" — 1,468 hits (down)

(3) New Mexico Senate race — 739 hits (up)

(10) New Mexico Border Patrol — 511 hits (up)

(7) Sen. Pete Domenici — 403 hits (up)

(5) New Mexico illegal immigration — 291 hits (up)

(6) Sen. Jeff Bingaman — 261 hits (up)

(9) Senate candidate Rep. Tom Udall — 236 hits (up)

(-) Senate candidate Rep. Steve Pearce — 209 hits (up)

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