Right Wing News emailed more than 150 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of who they considered to be their "favorite political websites". Representatives from the following 41 blogs responded...

4ranters, Abode Of Amritas, The American Mind, Annika's Journal And Poetry, Betsy's Page, The Blog Of The Century Of The Week, Cavalier's Guardian Watchblog, Capitol Hillblogger, Sasha Castel, Chicago Boyz, The Chicago Report, Cold Fury, Conservative Commentary, Croooow Blog, Dodgeblogium, Drumwaster's Rants, Cam Edwards, Fraters Libertas, Ghost of a Flea, Hud's Blog-O-Rama, Idiotarian, IMAO, Insults Unpunished, Joyful Christian, Musings, Occam's Toothbrush, Peaktalk, Pejmanesque, Damian Penny, Powerline, Ravenwood's Universe, Right Wing News, Patrick Ruffini, Sgt. Stryker's Daily Briefing, Sine Qua Non, Solomonia, Tacitus, Up Yours & Other Helpful Tips, Winds Of Change, The Yale Diva, Zogby Blog

All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-20 ranked selections. The selections were scored based on a weighted scale. A rank of 1-5 was worth (3) points, 6-10 was worth (2) points, & 11-20 was worth (1) point.

So for example, a 1st (3) & 13th (1) place selection would be worth 4 points wheras having three bloggers rank a columnist at 11th (1), 12th (1), and 15th (1) place would be worth 3 points total. Got it? Good.

Do keep in mind that the participants were not allowed to select their own blogs or Right Wing News. Since I'm running the poll and counting the votes, I thought it would be unfair for RWN to be in the running.

Also, as an added bonus, I included the number of first place selections each columnist had. The columnists who were picked first on someone's list have the number of #1 votes they received following a "--". Note that some of the columnists who received a #1 vote did not get enough other votes to qualify.

Well that's enough talk about the rules. The "favorite political websites" of the right side of the blogosphere are as follows (with the number of points following each selection)...

Honorable Mentions: Ann Coulter (9), Free Republic (10), The Economist (10) -- 1, The Command Post (10)

18) SteynOnline (11)
18) Samizdata (11) -- 1
18) Lucianne (11) -- 2
18) The Cato Institute (11) -- 1
18) Neil Boortz (11) -- 2
16) The Volokh Conspiracy (12) -- 1
16) The Bleat (12)
15) Weekly Standard (14)
12) WorldNet Daily (16)
12) Real Clear Politics (16)
12) Tim Blair (16)
11) USS Clueless (17) -- 1
10) Washington Post (18)
8) Reason (19)
8) Frontpage Mag (19) -- 2
7) Drudge Report (23) -- 3
6) Little Green Footballs (30) -- 4
5) Townhall (33)
4) WSJ's Opinion Journal (37)
3) Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish (40) -- 2
2) Instapundit (62) -- 4
1) National Review (82) -- 10

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