The Johnson City Press today (Tuesday) said their server was down yesterday because it was overwhelmed by presumably Dridge-related traffic. They said they had over 50,000 individual hits before they went down entirely, and can't even estimate how many (multiples of that?) tried and couldn't get through to the site.
Beinst I tried early yesterday morning and couldn't get through --- and they were down all day --- I'm betting the total number of people who tried was --- phenomenal.
Power of Drudge.