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By Hillary Profita

December 1, 2005 / 3:15 PM EST / CBS News

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Since it's never to early to start campaigning for the 2008 presidential race (only a few years until Iowa, people!) the folks at the Hotline (sorry, subscription required) have been tracking the air time that all the potential contenders for the White House have been sucking up on national television (cable and the networks) since September.

So far, John McCain is leading the pack, with Newt Gingrich in second place (Hotline notes he and Wes Clark are Fox News contributors) and Joe "I sleep right outside of the Sunday talk shows' studios" Biden in third. We've only included the totals here, the full monthly results and raw data are available at The Hotline. "Take a look at the Thanksgiving week numbers," Hotline suggests. "It may have been a holiday for most of the country, but there were plenty of TV appearances by those who wish to be president."


Totals, Sept. 6 - Nov. 30
McCain     5:10:26
Gingrich   3:24:30
Biden      2:45:14
Frist      1:47:41
Richardson 1:46:15
Allen      1:30:27
Brownback  1:23:05
Rice         49:57
Clark        41:48
Edwards      41:16
Warner       40:34
Romney       33:03
Huckabee     31:27
Barbour      29:52
Hagel        25:57
Kerry        23:22
Feingold     21:30
Clinton      20:07
Daschle      18:30
Tancredo     15:37
Pataki       15:26
Sanford       4:29
Vilsack       3:55
Giuliani      3:29