"Since The Next Prez last tallied candidate blog coverage (using Google Blog Search) on May 7th, John Kerry has narrowly edged out Hillary Clinton in new posts mentioning candidates by name, with John McCain continuing to lead the Republican field. Jesse Ventura is still gaining some attention as a possible independent candidate, holding a slight lead over Jim Gilchrist. Here are the latest numbers, arrived at by subtracting total hits from the previous total:"
Democrats
John Kerry 16,675 Hillary Clinton 15,882
John Edwards 4,013
Russ Feingold 3,259
Mark Warner 1,809
Tom Vilsack 1,612
Wesley Clark 1,461
Bill Richardson 1,368
Evan Bayh 1,130
Joe Biden 1,117
Tom Daschle 846
Christopher Dodd 443
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Republicans
John McCain 12,309
Bill Frist 7,833
Newt Gingrich 3,206
George Pataki 2,902
Rudy Giuliani 2,655
George Allen 2,588
Mitt Romney 2,477
Sam Brownback 1,890
Mike Huckabee 1,596
Tom Tancredo 963
Chuck Hagel 827
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