Conservatives Read Wider Range of Blogs Than Liberals
Written by commonsensejournal on May 5th, 2006According to Michael Meckler over at the Columbus Dispatch, conservatives read a wider range of blogs than liberals do, with a higher concentration of popular blogs on the left than the popular blogs on the right, which are more evenly distributed:
Unlike the most popular conservative blogs, whose readership is evenly distributed among a variety of sites, Moulitsas’ Daily Kos dominates the liberal blogosphere, with more than three quarters of a million visits each day, or nearly five times the readership of the next most popular progressive blog, Eschaton. According to recent statistics from SiteMeter, the 10 th-most-popular political blog on the left attracts roughly 20,000 daily visits, while the 10 thmost-popular political blog on the right has roughly 25,000 daily visits. This drop-off in visits among lesserread blogs continues to be more severe on the left than on the right, indicating that many progressives tend to visit the same small set of sites, giving those blogs much greater influence among Democratic activists than conservative blogs have among Republicans.
