Numbers Guy Says, "Obama Blogs Taking Nose Dive"

My, my, they sigh...

It surely sucks to be Kos and AmericaBlog today...

Along with the rest of the newly-Obamafied blogs I used to read every day...

AmericaBlog (leans Obama): As the candidate wars have escalated, AmericaBlog has experienced a 40% drop in peak weekly traffic over the past 30 days. From a pure statistical standpoint, both the traffic peaks and valleys are both lower, and consistently so. That’s what’s significant: the straight-line progression (and angle) of the downward slope.

"Leans Obama," my ass.

Daily Kos (leans Obama): In one month alone, DKos shed nearly 1/2 million unique visitors (on peak traffic days) between the beginning of March and April’s Fool day. Statistically, the 30% drop on DKos is not as significant as the 40% on AmericaBlog, but the sheer numbers tell the story - and again, the straight-line progression of the traffic decline is notable.

I repeat: "Leans Obama," my ass.

It's a daily Barakapalooza over there. 30% seems low, but many of us had already left Kossakistan long before this measure was taken.

Low and behold...

Atrios’ Eschaton (neutral): I’ll give Atrios this: he’s managed to build a nice little empire, and a heck of a stable (traffic-wise) community. Eschaton has taken pains to maintain site neutrality in the candidate wars, even if the community members seem to lean more Obama (but not rabidly so, as is the case on DKos and AmericaBlog). As a result, Eschaton has been able to maintain a relatively flat slope on traffic gains or losses.

Even "leaning Obama" these days can mess with your site hits. While it may not hurt, it definitely doesn't help.

Well, looky here...

Talk Left (leans Clinton): If the Obama-leaning sites have driven off Clinton supporters to other sites, the defection isn’t particularly apparent on the two blogs reviewed that lean toward Clinton. There hasn’t been a significant increase in traffic at Talk Left - but there hasn’t been a decrease, either. Like Eschaton, Talk Left apparently has a community that is more vested in the blog itself and less in a particular candidate, and as a result, traffic has been relatively stable over the past 30 days.

The author of this piece must like life on Planet OH RIGHT SURE if he thinks that candidate preference (in Talk Left's case, Clinton) isn't a factor here.

I have a couple of questions for blogs that "lean Obama":

Will your current readers still be around once the new car smell wears off?

More importantly, will your old readers come back?

If either answer is NO, you'd better find a day job.



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