Top 10 Political Websites ( Free Republic Number One, HuffPo 2nd, Kos 3rd)

Thursday, November 22, 2007 | Kristinn

[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.

[Quix]

What a surprise . . . NOT!

Rabid atheists the largest percentage by far!

Thanks.

[SunkenCiv]

And let me chime in that the reason that HP and DU get as much traffic as they do is 'cause we read in there, and then post their idiocy here for us to laugh at.

I think you're onto something. :')

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

Well, to be fair, they've probably had their shots...

[BIGLOOK]

The difference with FR and the Dem sites is simply that we have fun.....and they have hemorrhoids.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, it’s probably from their choice of shampoo or conditioner.

[BIGLOOK]

Bingo!

[Quix]

INDEED.

[bIlluminati]

I don’t miss the second hand smoke from the signals. Plus, reception was bad in inclement weather.

[bIlluminati]

Never liked preaching to the Eschoir, thought Ash was a Pokemon, and still remember y'all back when I was markfive - forgot password and no longer have said email account to request. Not sure when I joined - but know was in before summer of 1998. Didn't register as Republican until 2004 - not to worry - likely won't vote for anther D this lifetime.

Long live FR! Long live Jim Robinson!

[Convert from ECUSA]

Excellent! Thank you for setting up Free Republic!!! The only places I get my news anymore is at Free Republic and Lou Dobbs Tonight. With both, I know I’ll get the real news, and not the swill the MSM wants to feed the sheeple!

[snowsislander]

Free Republic に 万歳三唱!

[Liberty Wins]

Free Republic has been my home page for the past four years. This site informs, entertains, educates, and comforts mankind.

[Grampa Dave]

Kristinn, thanks for the heads up re this good news.

Thanks again Jim for creating this great equalizer for the common conservatives.

[Grampa Dave]

FYI and bump/ping lists.

This snuck through during the Holiday and Black Friday.

Please help get the word out.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Already passed along to all my conservative buds, and especially to those non-conservatives I know (very few).

[SierraWasp]

Thanks for the ping. I bumped my salute to the owner/founder at Reply #193!!!

[Milhous]

What a bunch of godless pagans! Allow me to speculate that applying the relaxed / fundamentalist Protestant ratio of 10-1 to Roman Catholicism would yield over one hundred CINOs (Catholics In Name Only) who support abortion. And an unknown quantity of JINOs (Jews In Name Only) included in Judaism.

[Grampa Dave]

“What a bunch of godless pagans! Allow me to speculate that applying the relaxed / fundamentalist Protestant ratio of 10-1 to Roman Catholicism would yield over one hundred CINOs (Catholics In Name Only) who support abortion. And an unknown quantity of JINOs (Jews In Name Only) included in Judaism.”

This doesn’t come as a surprise to a lot of us. The problem is many of these godless pagans are in organized religion as priests, preachers, bishops and ?. They are the inside demolition crews for the left in our churches and synagogues.

[Kevmo]

Thanks for the ping. Just sorta returning from vacation.

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Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
Posted on 11/15/2007 3:43:17 AM PST by Kevmo