Congrats DU #2 Political Blog (The must use loose terminology)

[RobertSeattle]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/archive/2005/08/ratings-for-political-blo_5726.html

According to a new study by the political think tank the New Politics Institute, progressive blogs have grown at a higher rate than conservative blogs over the last two years.

"In less than two years, the progressive blogoshpere had grown from less than as big as the conservative blogosphere, to nearly double its size," the study reported.

The study, "Emergence of the Progressive Blogosphere: A New Force in American Politics," was released August 10.

Progressive:

1. Daily Kos: 3,836,836
2. Democratic Underground: 1,563,608
3. Raw Story: 1, 053,974
4. Talking Points Memo: 1,003,788

Conservative:
1.Instapundit: 916,976
2. Little Green Footballs: 744,717
3. Michelle Malkin: 633,187
4. Powerline: 624,331

Traffic is measured in weekly visits.

[ixion]

1. my, my my... how DU has grown since I first started posting here...

way to go DU!! :bounce: :applause:

[NMDemDist2]

2. DU rocks!

Other aspects of the digital political world reflect the same trends. The prominent message boards Free Republic (conservative) and Democratic Underground (progressive) are two of the largest online political centers. While Free Republic has been long understood to be the largest political community on the web, over the past two years, Democratic Underground has almost entirely closed the traffic difference with its conservative rival.

http://www.ndnpac.org/npi/blogreporthtml.html

:yourock:

[katinmn]

3. Congrats, DU!

I always knew we were special.:)

[katinmn]

4. kicked and nominated!

[EarlG]

5. Very nice!

But if you measure all page views instead of just pages that carry advertising, we're actually on top of the list by a pretty wide margin:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4366183&mesg_id=4366514

[Cassandra]

11. Well, you give us something to do while we're here.

We have the option to be profound or just snarky, depending on mood.

[nookiemonster]

6. Kicked. Nominated.

eom

[corkhead]

7. LGF! you have got to be kidding

must have been all the free advertising last month from Jesus's General Patriotboy...

that's scary

[RobertSeattle]

8. LGF is pretty weird

I was reading through a LGF comment thread about George W. Bush's bike riding and the amount of "I Love George Bush ass kissing" was just plain embarrassing. It's like these guy have a poster of George Bush above their bed...

[Rich Hunt]

9. Free Republic isn't higher?

I guess they're too busy spying on their enemies to read their own blogs.

[RobertSeattle]

10. I just report it the stuff

I personally don't consider DU a "blog" but more a discussion site but good news is good news.

[Rich Hunt]

12. true, that

...but any publicity is good publicity.

:)

[dalloway]

13. I'm doing my part

Every since joining here and at dkos, these are my main two sources of news

[librechik]

14. the real minority is revealed

but that crowd loves being an elite. screw em!

[Up2Late]

15. Well, I bet we get 3 to 5 times as many post per day over Kos

I have a Kos account too, but I've only posted they maybe 5 or 6 times.