can we contrast the active members of FR to kos?
actually this is the kind of left wing squirm that would really look good on drudge.
Daily Kos Estimated Monthly Uniques - 262,944
Free Republic Estimated Monthly Uniques - 892,515
Quantcast provides reasonably reliable statistics, similar to Neilson and others, as opposed to easily corrupted stats that supposedly count page visits like SiteMeter does.
In other words, if you are an advertiser looking to spend money on web advertising, you would go to someplace like Quantcast; if you are running a website and want to get an idea of your stats, you go to your server logs. If you're too stupid to read/analyze your server logs, you put a page counter on your website. Page hit counters were funny in 1997.
I can't count the ways in which page hit counters are useless.