Top Political Bloggers: Campaign Radar 2004 Results

For the past several months, Intelliseek's Campaign Radar 2004 has been analyzing politics-related discussion and postings of political content in blogs. And the findings, released today, show some very clear trends and favorites. Find them all at the Campaign Radar 2004 Roundup page.

TOP POLITICAL BLOGS: Matt Drudge's Drudge Report (nearly 7,800 citations), Markos Moulitsas Zuniga's DailyKos (7,700) and Glenn Reynolds' Instapundit (6,900) are the blogs that other bloggers cite most frequently in their political postings. Other top blogs: Atrios ranked 4th, Powerlineblog ranked 5th, Talking Points Memo ranked 6th, Little Green Footballs was 10th, and Wonkette was 15th. John Kerry's campaign blog came placed in 22nd place with 1,616 links, while President George Bush's blog placed 50th with 581 links.

TOP MEDIA SOURCES: Bloggers just LOVE to include lots of links to news stories and articles published elsewhere, and when they do, they rely most heavily on the New York Times (45,000 citations), followed by the Washington Post (33,000), Yahoo! News (27,000), CNN (24,500), MSNBC (17,000), the National Review (12,400) and the BBC (10,500).

TOP ISSUES: Iraq remained the top issue throughout most of the campaign, flirting only briefly with the economy. Iraq-related postings grabbed anywhere from 11%-30% of citations in all political blog postings, while the economy ranged from 7%-13%, followed by health care issues at 3.5%-9.5%.

For full results and illustrative graphs, visit the brand spankin' new Campaign Radar 2004 Roundup Page or check back in coming days on BlogPulse for more findings and commentary.

OTHER BLOGPULSE NEWS: The ability to search links is now available at BlogPulse! Thanks to the amazing BlogPulse team (especially Natalie, Mark, Cecilly and Sundar), BlogPulse visitors can now type a URL into the search box, and BlogPulse will return the posts which link to that URL. The same function is available via BlogPulse's advanced search function by using the drop-down box titled "Find blogs that link to". Enjoy!