Candidate Camera

As a rough measure of the candidates' success in generating news (which is second only in importance to gathering money right now), I've got a few stats on each of the ten. The first stat is the number of news stories posted online on September 16th and 17th and searched by Google. The second is the date of their last article in the Washington Post. The third is their Gallup poll figures on preferences of Democratic leaning voters who are registered to vote, taken a week ago (before Clark's announcement).

Candidate	News stories	Washington Post story	Gallup poll
Carol Mosely Braun	124	August 27	4
Wesley Clark	682	September 17	12
Howard Dean	782	September 15	14
John Edwards	499	September 16	5
Richard Gephardt	241	September 13	16
Bob Graham	501	July 5	4
John Kerry	383	September 15	12
Dennis Kucinich	297	July 16	2
Joe Lieberman	235	September 3	13
Al Sharpton	131	June 29	2

Now, keep in mind that the first column counts articles where the candidate's name appeared, not articles solely about them, whereas the Washington Post date refers to the last article posted on that candidate's own page.

The Gallup data is worth checking out, as is this rather humourous article in the Hampshire (MA) Gazette.