D e s e r t E x p o s u r e
November
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. Our final election Top 10 bumps Richardson out of the top spot — for now.
- (2) New Mexico "battleground state" — 4,478 hits (up)
- (3) New Mexico Senate race — 1,606 hits (up)
- (#1 last month) Gov. Bill Richardson — 1,151 hits (down)
- (5) Sen. Pete Domenici — 976 hits (up)
- (4) Sen. Jeff Bingaman — 320 hits (down)
- (6) Senate candidate Rep. Tom Udall — 271 hits (down)
- (9) Virgin Galactic — 258 hits (up)
- (-) Senate candidate Rep. Steve Pearce — 251 hits (up)
- (-) US House candidate Ed Tinsley — 138 hits (up)
- (-) US House candidate Harry Teague — 105 hits (up)