Sunday, July 22, 2007

AZ conservative blogs more popular than liberal blogs

It isn't surprising that the most popular political blogs in Arizona are conservative. Blognetnews.com/arizona, which ranks political blogs according to how influential they are, ranks them currently as follows (my comments are added in parentheses). The top 3 are conservative, and 7 out of the top 10 are conservative. Even though liberals run half of the 20 blogs listed below, the libs round out the bottom half in popularity.

Rank Blog
1 The Sonoran Alliance (conservative)
2 Seeing Red AZ (conservative)
3 Espresso Pundit (conservative)
4 Arizona Congress Watch (liberal)
5 AZ Political Intel (conservative)
6 Politico Mafioso (conservative but run by nude elephants)
7 ThinkRight Arizona (conservative)
8 AZPoliticalNews (probably moderate, maybe somewhat liberal)
9 Sustainability, Equity, Development (liberal)
10 Arizona Political Heat (conservative)
11 Red State Arizona (conservative)
12 Arizona 8th (conservative)
13 Blog For Arizona (liberal)
14 Spidelblog (liberal)
15 Political Insider* (liberal media)
16 The Arizona Report (probably conservative)
17 BorderReporter.com (moderate, possibly liberal)
18 Man Eegee (liberal)
19 Random Musings (liberal)
20 AZplace (liberal)

*Sorry, we can't link to the Political Insider, since none of the links work. Not sure how it can be ranked as high as #15 when no one can get to the articles

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, where'd that Rum guy's website go? Not even in the top twenty? I didn't even know there were twenty AZ blogs out there... Wow...

Craig said...

Ummm...I don't question my blog (Random Musings) coming in at #19, (other than to wonder how it got to be that high :) ), but I do have to question two things:

1. Where's Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion? Tedski has at least 15X the readership that I have; and

2. AZ Congress Watch is 'liberal'?? Stacy just covers our Congresscritters' votes, statements, press coverage, and activities. And she does a good job of it.

She passes no partisan judgements at all.

Her blog should be listed as 'neutral.'

BTW - I don't know how they determined 'influential' for this ranking, but my personal top three are (in no particular order) -

R-Cubed
Espresso Pundit
AZ Congress Watch

x4mr said...

I am curious regarding the metrics you used to produce this ranking. That Tedski (RRR) is not ranked points to a fatal flaw. I am also skeptical that my blog ranks ahead of Framer's 8th. Yes, my readership is growing, but NO WAY do I draw the traffic and influence of RRR.