Do The Blogs Influence?

from Skippy on efforts to show the waning influence of leftblogistan:

 

". . .but what gets our goat (and we want mr. whiskers back! our back forty needs grazing!) is the third paragraph in which barnett trots out the meme that refuses to die:

depending on how you count, the progressive blogosphere's won/loss record in competitive races between the parties hovers somewhere around 0-20.

 

sigh. that thing was old when we wrote wonkette about not repeating this lie. it was indeed already beginning to smell when we pointed out (on his first day) ben domenech's inability to actually use facts in his really really really short tenure at the washpost. . .

 

this suggests that the blogosphere is already a mature medium and that its rapid growth phase is now past. and there is nothing to indicate that this relatively young dog is about to learn any new tricks.

we concede that both dkos and atrios are not getting as many hits as they were 8 months ago. neither is instapundit. neither is booman, or the left coaster, or the next hurrah, or (sadly) skippy the bush kangaroo. all of those sites, and we bet many others, saw a huge and abnormal spike in traffic during the months of september/october 2005. it's almost as if some levees broke somewhere, flooding the internets with readers desperate for news about some important national event. "

 

Yep. Katrina got me into this when, after watching hours of people dying and drowning, I first googled "Bush Is An Idiot" and found The Smirking Chimp and discovered there were a few like-minded citizens out there fervently hoping to replace the crooked incompetent traitors now ruling the country.