Right Wing News emailed more than 125 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of who they considered to be their "favorite editorial columnists". Representatives from the following 37 blogs responded...

4ranters, Abode Of Amritas, Amish Tech Support, Balloon Juice, Betsy's Page, The Blog Of The Century Of The Week, Sasha Castel, Colby Cosh, Common Sense & Wonder, D-42, Curmudgeonly & Skeptical, DANEgerus Weblog, dcthornton.blog, Ed Driscoll, Kim Du Toit, Fraters Libertas, Ghost of a Flea, The Greatest Jeneration, Gut Rumbles, Hud's Blog-O-Rama, Insults Unpunished, Jessica's Well, Lead And Gold, Joyful Christian, Patio Pundit, Peaktalk, Daily Pundit, Damian Penny, Poliblog, Powerline, Right Wing News, Sine Qua Non, Tacitus, The Ville, Whacking Day, The Yale Diva, Zogby Blog

All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-15 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, & 11-15 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.

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.

Without further ado, the "favorite editorial columnists" of the right side of the blogosphere are as follows (with the number of points following each selection)...

19) Bob Novak (9) -- 1
19) John Podhoretz (9)
17) John Leo (10)
17) William F. Buckley (10)
16) Larry Miller (11)
15) Andrew Sullivan (14)
13) David Warren (17)
13) Larry Elder (17)
12) David Horowitz (21) -- 1
11) James Lileks (23)
10) Ann Coulter (24) -- 2
9) Christopher Hitchens (25)
8) Victor Davis Hanson (27) -- 2
7) Walter Williams (31) -- 1
6) Michelle Malkin (32)
5) George Will (34) -- 3
4) Jonah Goldberg (43) -- 1
3) Thomas Sowell (44) -- 3
2) Charles Krauthammer (48) -- 1
1) Mark Steyn (82) -- 15

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