Not uncommon. I just told a good conservative acquaintance this morning about FR, and sent him a follow-up email with the URL address. Believe me, there are a lot of good, strong, conservative people out there who still get their news from surfing news sites, and don't know forums such as this.
there are far more who have never heard of FRee Republic than those who have.
At a Tea Party Rally I handed out a Free Republic Hand bill I made and gave out about 200. Practically none knew of our site.
To my best knowledge, there were only two FReepers present out of around 2,000 attendees. I was flabbergasted by the great turnout and my 200 handbills turned out to be a paltry effort