Posted on 12/02/2008 7:20:49 PM PST by bkwells
The Wall Street Journal recently reported an important effect of the 2008 presidential campaign: For the first time, traffic at left-leaning political Web sites overtook traffic at right-leaning competitors. The Drudge Report and Free Republic had the largest number of unique visitors in September 2007, but in September 2008, that honor went to the Huffington Post.
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Some people have. Ben Stein wrote a piece about her a few years ago, burned her down pretty good. It was right after she flipflopped, and his subject was how she started ducking old friends and acquaintances among the conservatives, and kissing up to her new "friends". Ben was unsparing. And fair.
I think you’re right.
I wonder how much of an effect the downtime put into these numbers... If it was close at all, I’m sure the 4 or 5 total days of outage would have allowed us to blow them away...
Good point.
Posts 11 and 12 are spot on. 99% of the stuff on Drudge is simply other news orgs’ stuff. Every once in a great while he gets a scoop...but that’s very rare.
Painting Drudge as a right-wing blog is their attempt to discredit Drudge’s fine and fair work.
I heard two radio twerps — “Brad and Britt” — in the Triad area of NC whine about Drudge’s “sensational” headlines. I couldn’t stop laughing. Like newspaper headlines aren’t sensational. Man, liberals are the worst!
When outlets like NBC and CNN refer to the Huffington Post as a legitimate news source, of course they’re going to see a traffic uptick. The Ill informed voter then goes there and gets usurped by the slant.
And when the numbers get pulled in normal mid-term election years where the media doesn’t turn into an American Idol season, they’re going to drop like a rock.
The turnout percentage in Georgia yesterday proves that. Democrats depend on a media circus and celebrity power to get their base to the voting booth to vote straight Dem ticket. Ludacris and Young Jeezy didn’t quite work to get the turnout on runoff day...
Yes, as we’ve said, imagine if Jim Rob had Soros’ backing in unlimited amounts.
We’re going to win:
Scads of money often screws up a good little thing that’s growing —look at how many great military programs this happens to.
People here crosslink, research, dig around...they do it for FREE. You just can’t buy that kind of loyalty.
Thre are many thousands of us, now. I remember when there were just 30 threads per day on FR —now you can spool and spool alllll day long through them; the situation has changed completely.
Some day our numbers will be like the stars.
Let’s say they take down talk radio completely —what do you think would happend at FR...?
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