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Posted on 11/22/2007 4:43:01 PM PST by kristinn
FreeRepublic.com, the eleven-year-old conservative granddaddy of political discussion websites, was rated the most popular political website by Hitwise, an Internet data tracking service, for the week ending November 17, 2007 with 5.14% market share.
The liberal site, HuffingtonPost.com, founded two-and-a-half years ago, was the only site that came close to Free Republic in interest from net users, with 4.51% market share. In a distant third place, the five-year-old liberal site DailyKos.com, was left in the dust by Free Republic and Huffington Post, garnering only 2.57% market share.
The others sites Hitwise listed were, in order, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com with 2.17%; townhall.com with 2.1%; buzzflash.com with 1.95%; politico.com with 1.9%; humanevents.com with 1.84%; realclearpolitics.com with 1.72% and democraticunderground.com with 1.69%.
Free Republic has received none of the fawning promotion in the mainstream media that its nearest competitors get. It takes no paid advertising, has no membership fees and relies solely on donations for its existence. Its founder and webmaster, Jim Robinson, is not touted as a political player like Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington and Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga are. The site has endured withering criticism this year by pundits from Bill O'Reilly to Patrick Ruffini. Yet, Free Republic survives and thrives as one of the most popular and influential political websites.
From leading the charge to impeach President Bill Clinton in 1998, to the 2004 exposing of the fraudulent National Guard documents that led to Dan Rather's firing by CBS News, to the recent deep-sixing of expansion of the S-CHIP program, Freepers, as members at the site are known, have changed politics in America.
Liberals despise them, some conservatives seeth with envy, yet none can deny that more than a decade in to the online revolution, Free Republic is still a force to be reckoned with.
Bwahhahhhah! Loooooosersss! Ron Paul forums probably has a higher #.
Kudos to Jim Robinson, stalwart Conservative! Thank God for Freerepublic.
More to be thankful for on Thanksgiving!
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Well this explains dailykos.. anyone got an explanation for HuffingtonPost?
“Free Republic has received none of the fawning promotion in the mainstream media that its nearest competitors get.”
Hmmm...there is no bias in the Dinosaur media, is there???
Happy Thanksgiving!
Represent!
What about Wide Awakes? [grin]
(Sidebar moderators notice the slight, decide they will take revenge on admin moderators ....)
What? No WAnkerville? No LP? No troofer.org or clownposse?
bumpity bump bump!
Cool.
Opps. In going around the family table during turkey dinner we all said what we were thankful for. Family and God came in the highest among my kids, followed by friends, pets and mash potatoes! I added our good health and living in America.
However - I omitted the chance to give THANKS to Free Republic - so thank you to Jim and all the others who work so hard.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Yah... and posting with punch cards was a real pain too.
Very true. Thanks for your service to our country.
It did get rather messy when the spellchecker started re-typing the punchcards ....
Well put.
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