Posted on 05 November 2012.
A lot of the pundits are looking at the polls and the race in general and comparing it to past presidential races. I created a computer program to tell us what the results would have been if the polling ratios in this year’s polls were applied to historic models of past presidential elections. The results are interesting. [...]
Posted on 23 May 2012.
Tough Sales Job Despite President Obama’s Taxpayer Financed PR Campaigns, Americans Think He ‘Made Things Worse’ SEN. MITCH McCONNELL: “The President needs to face facts. Americans don’t want him spending their hard-earned money trying to spin policies they don’t like.” (Sen. Mitch McConnell, Floor Remarks, 5/23/12) NBC/WSJ Survey: President Has ‘Made Things Worse’ Q: “For each [...]
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Posted on 20 March 2012.
US Senate Candidate George Allen has a new site to calculate the money you are spending on a fill up now as opposed to when Barack Obama took office. The website is Too Much at the Pump and it is a nifty little applet to see how much more a tank of gas costs you [...]
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Posted on 20 November 2011.
A few changes over last week. Too Conservative and Black Velvet Bruce Li had pretty good weeks according to the ranking services. 22 out of 34 Right Leaning Blogs improved over the previous week (65%)! 9 out of 17 Left Leaning Blogs (53%) improved in relation to the same blog’s score last week. Overall, [...]
Posted on 14 November 2011.
After a couple of weeks of fighting the fact that several of the ranking sites have either been down or made changes to their site that I had to rewrite my data harvesting routines, everything is finally back on track. Last week, Compete made several changes and I was able to fix it, so the [...]
Posted on 23 October 2011.
The weekly Virginia Political Blog rankings have been compiled. There was a bit of a shuffle in the top 10 as Virginia Right! moved to #1 and Too Conservative moved from 9th to 8th place showing an 80% increase. On the Conservative end of the Blogosphere, 19 out of 34 blogs improved (56%) and on [...]
Posted on 16 October 2011.
It has become quite common that one or more of the ranking sites decided to either go down completely or have major issues just when my software kicks off on Sunday mornings to gather the rankings for the (now) 51 Virginia blogs I track each week. And even when the sites all cooperate, it seems [...]
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Posted on 25 September 2011.
The Blog Rankings are out for 9/25/2011! While I have managed to gather the data the past couple of weeks, a number of obstacles have managed to make things a bit more difficult. As soon as we got our lights back on from the hurricane, it seems that it has been one thing after another. [...]
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Posted on 11 September 2011.
Finally back in the swing of things with the blog rankings. The week of 8/28/2011 was a wipe-out due to Hurricane Irene and the week of 9/4/2011 was the Labor Day weekend and I was busy moving my business office from one location to another about 3 blocks away. We had been in the same [...]
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Posted on 21 August 2011.
There seems to have been an algorithm tweak at Compete.com this week. Several rankings were pulled downwards by the change, but there was not a lot of downward movement due to their change. There was some upward movement in several blogs that were previously not ranked, which have now been added to the Compete rankings. [...]
Posted on 13 August 2011.
Finally, the voting is over and the results have been tabulated. Michele Bachmann took first place and Ron Paul took second152 votes behind! And there was actually a great turnout, which shows that even in Iowa the voters are energized against the current failed occupant of the White House. Some 16,892 paid the $30 to [...]
Posted on 07 August 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 8/7/2011 are out! The rankings have been trimmed down to only the top 50 most active blogs. If you are the owner of a blog that has been removed from the top 50, please let me know if you return to actively blogging. While there is no hard and [...]
Posted on 01 August 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 7/24/2011 are out! We thinned out some of the less active blogs and brought the total number of ranked blogs to 50. There were a number of blogs that have new posts only rarely and there was not much point in ranking them on a weekly basis. Most of [...]
Posted on 24 July 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 7/24/2011 are out! The blogs were relatively stable this week in relation to last week’s standings. The only change in the top 20 was SWACGirl moving from number 19 to number 18. This week’s Most Improved Blog Award goes to VirginiaDem, improving 10.7% This week, 9 out of 20 [...]
Posted on 17 July 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 7/17/2011 are out! Virginia Right! moved into the #1 slot for the first time. Yes, I do the rankings, but this is an average of 4 ranking sites, so the results are posted by each ranking engine. We simply average the results. The past few weeks have been very [...]
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Posted on 10 July 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 7/10/2011 are out! The rankings remained stable this week in the top 20 positions with no changes at all until position 18. There were also no new blogs who took the advice in the FAQ to list their sites in all of the ranking engines – in particular Technorati. [...]
Posted on 05 July 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 7/3/2011 are out! Apologies for the tardiness of this week’s rankings. The “snapshot” was taken on Sunday as usual, but I was out of state for the 4th of July Holiday and was unable to find the time to post. But there are some significant changed in the rankings! [...]
Posted on 13 June 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 6/12/2011 are out! Bearing Drift maintains the first place spot by a slim margin as All Politics is Local (Vivian Paige) climbs back up to number two, moving ahead of Virginia Right! Several blogs moved a couple of spots, but the one that stands out as This Week’s Most [...]
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Posted on 06 June 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 6/5/2011 are out! Vivian Page’s All Politics is Local has been the #1 ranked blog since these rankings began the first of the year (2011). This week, All Politics is Local drops two spots to #3 as Bearing Drift moves up a spot into first place. Several blogs moved [...]
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