Thursday, December 22, 2011

Forget the Polls: Political Website Traffic Tells A Bigger Story

Readers of the conservative website, The Daily Caller, probably enjoyed reading this morning's lead piece: "As political season heats up, Politico’s Web traffic cools down".

In essence, this article uses available web traffic data to show that there has been a dramatic shift of traffic away from left-leaning political websites and an even more dramatic rise in traffic towards conservative sites. It appears that liberal sites like Politico, Media Matters, Talking Points Memo, the Daily Kos, Wonkette, and Salon have all suffered double-digit losses in their number of unique visitors. At the same time, political right-wing sites such as The Daily Caller, The Blaze, and Newsmax have all had extraordinary increases in traffic.

These statistics may tell a bigger story. A story that says Americans are seriously rejecting the progressive policies of Obama and the Democrats. And, more than any polling data, this may well be a better predictor of a conservative win in the 2012 elections. Not just for Congress but, also, for the presidency.

Lastly, on a related topic, The Blaze is reporting that the leftest of the left-wing websites, MoveOn.org, may go belly up on January 1st if it doesn't get an immediate cash infusion of $400,000 dollars. Many believe that George Soros will come to the rescue. He probably will. Even so, it is just another example of how liberal sites are losing at the hands of the extremist policies of Obama and the Democrats.

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