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It has been more than 6 months since the last time I ranked the political blogs and I thought it was high time to do it again.
Of course, there are a number of inherent difficulties in doing this sort of thing. You have to decide what counts as a blog -- for example, are websites like Fark & Counterpunch actually blogs (I say "no")? Then there was the issue of sorting "political blogs" out from other types of blogs like Boing Boing & Wil Wheaton's page. Some of them were tough calls, but I made my decisions and decided to let the chips fall where they may.
So after I compiled a list of blogs, I had to rank them. I decided to use Alexa for that purpose. However, Alexa does have some flaws.
-- Alexa can't properly read all the Blog*spot pages so they all receive the same rank. Because of that, none of them were included.
-- Furthermore, Alexa sometimes cannot distinguish between the main page and secondary page of a website. For example, Alexa gives National Review the same ranking as The Corner which meant I had to leave out a few blogs of worth that were hosted on much larger pages.
I'd estimate that those two factors knocked out at the very least a half a dozen blogs that would have otherwise been ranked.
As far as the scoring goes, all 50 websites are listed with their Alexa rank following their link. So for example, a "1" would mean the page was the most popular website on the net. A "100,000" would mean the 100,000th most popular page on the net. With that being said, let's go ahead and take a look at the rankings...
1) Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish: 7,521
2) Instapundit: 8,075
3) Daily Kos: 11,113
4) Talking Points Memo: 12,328
5) The Smirking Chimp: 15,111
6) Little Green Footballs: 15,079
7) James Lileks: 17,743
8) Karen De Coster: 23,717
9) Calpundit: 28,665
10) Israpundit: 30,389
11) The Volokh Conspiracy: 30,813
12) Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:33,133
13) Scrappleface: 33,141
14) The USS Clueless: 35,334
15) Right Wing News: 35,372
16) The Semi-Daily Journal of Economist Brad DeLong: 36,848
17) Tim Blair, Twisted Spinster, Sine Qua Non: 37,305
18) This Modern World: 43,416
19) The Agitator: 44,525
20) Daniel Drezner: 45,027
21) Buzz Machine: 50,103
22) Matthew Yglesias: 51,927
23) Winds Of Change: 55,495
24) Talk Left: 55,699
25) Wizbang: 57,513
26) The Command Post:57,566
27) Samizdata: 57,753
28) Maxspeak: 58,672
29) The Agonist: 60,272
30) The Truth Laid Bear: 61,443
31) Dean's World: 62,115
32) Oliver Willis: 63,387
33) Hugh Hewitt: 65,673
34) Asymmetrical Information: 66,651
35) Virginia Postrel: 69,457
36) Sgt. Stryker's Daily Briefing: 72,298
37) A Small Victory: 74,092
38) Spinsanity: 76,099
39) Cold Fury: 76,922
40) Cox & Forkum: 78,271
41) Allah Is In The House: 84,203
42) Lt. Smash: 87,164
43) Pandragon: 88,133
44) The Conspiracy To Keep You Poor & Stupid: 88,476
45) IMAO: 92,782
46) Rantburg: 94,665
47) Liberal Oasis: 94,684
48) Kim Du Toit: 103,012
49) Vodkapundit: 104,634
50) Matt Welch: 105,475
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