Guide to Arizona's Republican/conservative blogs

Your alternative to Arizona's left wing newspapers' political coverage


We have compiled a list of the most active, influential Republican/conservative blogs covering Arizona politics, ranked in order using three criteria, 1) popularity, 2) quality, and 3) influence - we asked political insiders whether they'd heard of them and read them. We have excluded Technorati's blog rankings to determine popularity because they aren't reliable; any small blog that gives themself just 1 favorable ranking on technorati immediately jumps ahead of all the other small blogs that don't have a favorable ranking yet. Instead, we have included Quantcast and alexa rankings. We decided not to include blogs that focus on national issues, such as J.D. Hayworth's, whose blog is almost completely national issues, nor blogs that have had little activity lately. The purpose of this list is to provide conservatives with alternative political analysis and news in Arizona, since the mainstream newspapers fail to cover a lot of news about conservatives and when they do it's so biased you're not getting the full story.

1. Sonoran Alliance
236,037 Quantcast, 6,238 estimated monthly unique visitors
467,587 alexa
Insider conservative political analysis by multiple anonymous contributors, lots of breaking news and insider baseball, posts are heavily commented on by mostly anonymous political activists

2. Espresso Pundit
9,133,328 Quantcast, < 2,000 estimated monthly visitors
4,534,745 alexa
The best, well-written yet enjoyable to read conservative political analysis in the state by Greg Patterson

3. AZ Political Intel
1,902,634 Quantcast, < 2,000 estimated monthly visitors
1,010,202 alexa
Mostly news releases from conservative organizations, upcoming conservative events, and coverage of bias on the local political PBS show Horizon

4. Red State Arizona
1,902,634 Quantcast, < 2,000 estimated monthly visitors
1,234,079 alexa
Breaking conservative political analysis on a wide variety of topics

5. Arizona Political Heat
707,246 Quantcast, < 2,000 estimated monthly visitors
1,456,527 alexa
Conservative political analysis with extra focus on illegal immigration and speeding tickets

6. Seeing Red AZ
364,698 Quantcast, 3,049 estimated monthly visitors
2,555,785 alexa
Not for the fainthearted. Critical conservative political analysis, with an emphasis on illegal immigration and pointing out problems with McCain.

7. Exurban League
1,463,335 Quantcast, < 2,000 estimated monthly visitors
1,502,670 alexa
Conservative political analysis from two exurban guys

8. Politico Mafioso
1,903,045 Quantcast, < 2,000 estimated monthly visitors
1,883,621 alexa
The only active pro-McCain blog in the state. Mostly copies and pastes pro-McCain articles and articles on terrorism. Has ties to the Shangri La nudist colony and the Grand Pachyderm club (not to be confused with the conservative Pachyderm Coalition). But has a good sense of humor about being ganged up upon for being a RINO by the rest of the conservative blogs.

9. AZ GOP's Pullen for the Party
1,887,974 Quantcast, 628 estimated monthly visitors
5,509,174 alexa
Mostly press releases and clips from talks by National Committeeman Bruce Ash

10. Arizona Eighth
1,902,633 Quantcast, < 2,000 estimated monthly visitors
5,910,061 alexa
Conservative political analysis of Arizona's 8th district (generally North Tucson area)

11. Think Right AZ
1,902,634 Quantcast, < 2,000 estimated monthly visitors
not on alexa
Sort of misnamed RINO blog run by a political insider, supports McCain

12. Arizona Report
1,902,634 Quantcast, < 2,000 estimated monthly visitors
not an alexa
Fairly conservative political satire site, run by a political insider

13. Lighthouse Blog
4,020,068 Quantcast, < 2,000 estimated monthly visitors
no alexa ranking
Conservative political analysis

14. Cactus Alliance
5,677,303 Quantcast, < 2,000 estimated monthly visitors
10,013,110 alexa
Aggregate of pro-life conservative blogs

15. Zonitics
not on Quantcast or alexa
Probably the first conservative blog in the Valley, run by an anonymous guy with occasional anonymous contributors. Known for breaking really good intel here and there.

16. Mesa Issues
1,903,052 Quantcast, < 2,000 estimated monthly visitors
5,188,715 alexa
Like it's name says, covers Mesa issues

17. Jakubczyk on Life
1,902,634 on Quantcast, < 2,000 estimated monthly visitors
11,626,498 alexa
Conservative pro-life analysis from a major pro-life leader

18. AZ Watchtower
1,321,655 Quantcast, < 2,000 estimated monthly visitors
not on alexa
Conservative political analysis focusing mostly on Arizona's congressional candidates

19. Len Munsil
8,843,611 Quantcast, < 2,000 estimated monthly visitors
7,656,317 alexa
Conservative political analysis by the former gubernatorial candidate and founder/President of the Center for Arizona Policy

20. Arizona Growler
1,520,474 Quantcast, < 2,000 estimated monthly visitors
not on alexa
Conservative political analysis with an emphasis on Arizona State University

21. El Gringo
not on Quantcast or alexa
Conservative political analysis with an emphasis on economics from a former Goldwater Institute scholar

Red Arizona
only appeared a few days ago so not yet on Quantcast or alexa
Insider blog with connections to the Republican Party and the state legislature, supports McCain


Addendum
We did not include Righty Blogs or Blog Net News since those are nationwide aggregators of blogs, and Blog Net News includes liberal blogs, however, we do recommend them as excellent sources for monitoring the state's political blogosphere. Please email us at azpoliticalintel-at-yahoo.com if you have any corrections or additions.